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Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

In a study focusing on hiring decisions, MIT researchers found the use of a single algorithm by many firms could benefit job seekers in certain situations.

MIT engineers have found a way to stabilize the lipid nanoparticles used to deliver RNA vaccines, which could allow the vaccines to be more widely distributed.

The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.

Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.

Patricia and James Poitras ’63 provide fellowships for graduate students and postdocs who will shape the future of mental health research.

A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.

This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical navigation in fields such as orthopedics and neurosurgery.

Naoki Egami has become a standout in political methodology, helping refine tools that give scholars durable results.

Atlas Building Composites is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure.

The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when “pretty close” doesn’t cut it.

The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, promises improved health outcomes for injured service members and civilians.

A weeklong summer workshop brought higher education faculty to campus to explore how AI and machine learning materials can be adapted for their classrooms.

The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being.

The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.

With millions of users across the world, Julia has been used to conduct cutting-edge research and to design new drugs, jet engines, heat pumps, and more.

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically unstable designs.

A new algorithm learns to anticipate the unprecedented scenarios that critical infrastructure and global supply chains are least prepared for.

New MIT research could lead to better materials for a fossil-fuel-free process for making the chemical that's essential to fertilizer and other products.

A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves.

In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.

In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.

“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.

Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.

An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.

MIT CSAIL director Daniela Rus has been awarded the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, AI, and autonomous systems, one of Germany's most prestigious tech awards.

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research. They visited 62 congressional offices across 32 states, discussing science funding, AI privacy, deep-sea mining, and more. The program, organized by the MIT Science Policy Initiative, aims to train the next generation of scientists in policy advocacy.