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MIT News — AI research 2h ago

New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

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.

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MIT News — AI research 2d ago

MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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

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MIT News — AI research 3d ago

Estimating suicide risk from text

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

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MIT News — AI research 4d ago

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

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.

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MIT News — AI research 4d ago

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

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

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MIT News — AI research 5d ago

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

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

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MIT News — AI research 9d ago

A new chapter for MIT Reads

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

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MIT News — AI research 11d ago

New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

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

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MIT News — AI research 12d ago

Measure by measure, studying society accurately

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

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MIT News — AI research 14d ago

New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

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

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MIT News — AI research 14d ago

MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

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

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MIT News — AI research 16d ago

Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

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

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MIT News — AI research 18d ago

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines

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

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MIT News — AI research 25d ago

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.

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MIT News — AI research 25d ago

System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.

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MIT News — AI research 26d ago

Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.

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MIT News — AI research 27d ago

Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

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

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MIT News — AI research 27d ago

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

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

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MIT News — AI research 28d ago

How an MIT research project became a global programming language

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.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Looking beyond natural sequences

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.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

AI helps design new materials that work in the real world

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

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data

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

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Paving the way for greener ammonia production

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.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

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.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

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

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

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

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios

“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.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Solving the solvent problem

By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

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

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

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

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize

Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.

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MIT News — AI research 1mo ago

Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill

MIT students and postdocs discussed science funding and research with policymakers in Washington during the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s annual Congressional Visit Days.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Working to automate nuclear plant operations

PhD student Lauren Fortier is building on the experience she gained operating a nuclear plant for the Navy to solve a critical hurdle in the wider adoption of the energy source.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

Initial research projects advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Following the questions where they lead

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering

MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace systems.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

Students from the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic help local governments and other vulnerable organizations defend against digital threats.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, where robots can simulate everyday chores.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content

Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities, without prompting them for illegal outputs.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications

A USAF cadet and a Lincoln Laboratory researcher found AI chatbots can help nontechnical service members produce viable software applications for their unique problems.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science

The professor of physics and inaugural director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions will lead LNS and continue his research in particle physics.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Toward a future that preserves benefits of neurotechnology for all

PhD student Rachel Sava, winner of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize, explores transformative improvements and dystopian risks of neural technology.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America

During a "Washington Post Live" panel discussion with ASU President Michael Crow, President Sally Kornbluth explored how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape.

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MIT News — AI research 2mo ago

Q&A: What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?

Computer scientist Phillip Isola cuts through the hype to explain how AI agents work and what the future might hold for this rapidly advancing technology.

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New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Estimating suicide risk from text

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

A new chapter for MIT Reads

New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

Measure by measure, studying society accurately

New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

How an MIT research project became a global programming language

Looking beyond natural sequences

AI helps design new materials that work in the real world

Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data

Paving the way for greener ammonia production

When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios

Solving the solvent problem

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize

Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill

How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

Working to automate nuclear plant operations

MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

Following the questions where they lead

A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications

Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science

Toward a future that preserves benefits of neurotechnology for all

MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America

Q&A: What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?