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Origami-based construction method yields lightweight, load-bearing structures on architectural scales
The modular approach could be used to erect emergency shelters or fabricate aerospace components more quickly and with less material than some techniques. ...
J-PAL North America launches Homelessness Evaluation Resource Hub to drive evidence-informed approaches to housing stability
The hub serves as a free, online repository of essential content for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers seeking to leverage rigorous research to infor...
Hashim Sarkis to step down as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning
During a dozen years of leadership, Sarkis championed projects that advanced research, education, and public engagement, and helped design thrive at MIT....
Implantable device uses ultrasound to improve drug delivery to the brain
This targeted approach could offer a way to prevent the recurrence of aggressive brain tumors....
Watch the universe emerge from the dark ages, with Lumina
The new simulation tracks dark matter, galaxies, stars, and cosmic structures over the universe’s first 2 billion years, in greater detail and volume than ever ...
At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI
In Compton Lecture, the distinguished legal scholar warns of potential “loss of the Enlightenment” while suggesting ways innovations can meet our civic and cult...
Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT
During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular ins...
Gunter Stein, control systems and theory expert, dies at 84
Longtime EECS adjunct professor and LIDS researcher was known for an influential essay on the need for engineers to “respect the unstable.” ...
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes ...
Persistence, teamwork, and some healthy competition
Senior Veronica Calzadilla Sosa has taken the long route toward her MIT degree and found a supportive community along the way....