Launched in February of this year, the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC), a presidential initiative led by MIT’s Office of Innovation and Strategy and administered by the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of…
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ViSafe: Smarter Vision for Safer Skies
06/20/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Every day, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) handles tens of thousands of flights. Airspace traffic not only involves commercial planes, but helicopters, experimental lightcraft,…
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Robot Talk Episode 126 – Why are we building humanoid robots?
Research into humanoid robots is a rapidly advancing field, with companies around the world striving to produce robots that look and act more like us. But what is it about recreating ourselves…
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Invisible quantum waves forge shape-shifting super-materials in real time
Researchers can now observe the phonon dynamics and wave propagation in self-assembly of nanomaterials with unusual properties that rarely exist in nature. This advance will enable researchers to incorporate desired mechanical properties into…
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AI at light speed: How glass fibers could replace silicon brains
Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. Collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in France,…
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The AI that writes climate-friendly cement recipes in seconds
The cement industry produces around eight percent of global CO2 emissions – more than the entire aviation sector worldwide. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed an AI-based model that helps to accelerate the discovery of…
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26 | MIT News
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
The full 2026 edition of the rankings…
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‘Dragon Man’ skull may be the first from an enigmatic human cousin
Meet the new face, and braincase to boot, of Asia’s mysterious Stone Age denizens, the Denisovans.
The nearly complete, roughly 146,000-year-old skull of an adult male was found nearly a century ago, possibly during bridge…
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Gearing up for RoboCupJunior: Interview with Ana Patrícia Magalhães
Action from RoboCupJunior Rescue at RoboCup 2024. Photo: RoboCup/Bart van Overbeeke.
The annual RoboCup event, where teams gather from across the globe to take part in competitions across a…
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