NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with L. Rafael Reif, former president of MIT, about his recent essay in Foreign Affairs, "America Is Losing the Innovation Race: Why the Future of Science Might Be Chinese." ...

What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell amid the constant launches, hype, and warnings. To cut ...

MIT researchers have developed a classical physics-based formulation that reproduces results from the Schrödinger equation, ...

An MIT study found that students using AI tools like ChatGPT for writing showed up to 55% less brain activity and poorer ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is launching an Initiative for New Manufacturing, an institution-wide effort intended to promote and advance the future of U.S. manufacturing. According to ...

MIT engineers have found evidence that the sound of falling raindrops can speed up germination in rice seeds, apparently by ...

Authorities were working Wednesday to uncover clues after a prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

MIT researchers have found that an atmospheric condition called an inversion determines how oppressive heat waves get and how ...

We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago. MIT was academically rigorous, and it taught us our crafts and the essence of problem-solving, enabling us to thrive ...

Scientists have been working for the last few years on enhancing concrete – arguably the most common construction material on the planet – to store energy. That includes researchers at Massachusetts ...

The findings of a new study are the first direct evidence that plant seeds and seedlings can sense sounds in nature.