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MIT Geologists Make Groundbreaking Discovery: Oldest Evidence Yet of Earth’s Magnetic Field Found in…
Geologists at MIT and Oxford University have uncovered ancient rocks in Greenland that bear the oldest remnants of Earth’s early magnetic field.
The rocks appear to be exceptionally pristine, having preserved their properties for…
MIT Unveils 2024 Bose Grant Recipients
MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart announced four Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support bold research projects across diverse areas of study, including a way to generate clean hydrogen from deep in the Earth, build an environmentally…
Innovative Tiny Chip Protects User Data and Enables Efficient Smartphone Computing
Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, using nothing more than a smartphone. However, these apps can be slow and energy-inefficient because the vast machine-learning models that…
MIT Develops Closed-Loop Drug Delivery System to Enhance Chemotherapy
When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the dose of most drugs is calculated based on the patient’s body surface area. This is estimated by plugging the patient’s height and weight into an equation, dating to 1916, that was…
MIT scientists tune the entanglement structure in an array of qubits
Entanglement is a form of correlation between quantum objects, such as particles at the atomic scale. This uniquely quantum phenomenon cannot be explained by the laws of classical physics, yet it is one of the properties that explains the…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ian Waitz Appointed Vice President for Research
In a letter to the MIT community today, President Sally Kornbluth announced the appointment of Ian A. Waitz to the position of vice president for research. In the role, Waitz will report to the president and oversee MIT’s vast…
Applying an Investigator’s Lens to Complex Social Challenges
Anna Russo likes puzzles. They require patience, organization, and a view of the big picture. She brings an investigator’s eye to big institutional and societal challenges whose solutions can have wide-ranging, long-term impacts.
Russo’s…
MIT-led Brave Behind Bars Program Shows Effectiveness in New Study
Several years ago, a team of scientists from MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell designed and deployed a first-of-its-kind web programming course for incarcerated individuals across multiple correctional facilities.…
Seven MIT Scholars Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2024
Eight MIT faculty members are among the 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 24.
One of the…
MIT Teams Secure NSF Grants for Sustainable Materials Research
Two teams led by MIT researchers were selected in December 2023 by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator, a part of the TIP Directorate, to receive awards of $5 million each over three years, to pursue…