Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
AI models played “Collaborative Battleship” together and struggled to ask informative questions about hidden ships. A Monte Carlo inference strategy helped ...
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MIT Engineers Solve a Major Lidar Problem That Has Stumped Researchers for Years
A new MIT-designed lidar chip uses specially engineered antennas to reduce interference and widen the sensor’s field of view.
A new vaccine adjuvant could make it easier to eradicate polio
MIT researchers modified the injectable polio vaccine to promote a mucosal immune response, using an adjuvant delivered by lipid nanoparticles. This vaccine cou...
MIT chemists design impact-resistant plastics
Using a novel cross-linking molecule, MIT chemists showed they can double the strength of common polymers, including polystyrene and a type of rubber used to ma...
MIT's method toughens plastics for impact-resistant electronics, tires
A team of MIT chemists has figured out how to make plastics vastly stronger by engineering them to break.
Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break Their Grip.
A new process for mining lithium-rich rock could slash costs and pollution—and decentralize global lithium production.
The Pentagon Should Carve Out MIT
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MIT unveils non-invasive wearable pacemaker to save heart patients
MIT has developed a noninvasive, surgery-free alternative to standard heart implants: a wearable ultrasound pacemaker sticker.
Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart
MIT engineers developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design could one day provide a surgery-free alternative to tradi...
It’s Commencement Day 2026 For MIT Students
MIT President Sally Kornbluth praised excellence, curiosity, ethics, humility, and community-driven innovation during commencement remarks.
US scientists' new quantum lab targets future computing breakthroughs
A new MIT Quantum Systems Laboratory backed by $25 million in state funding aims to advance research, startups and workforce development.
AMD CEO Lisa Su Gives MIT Commencement Address
Lisa Su’s MIT commencement speech emphasized resilience, engineering confidence, teamwork, AI responsibility, and ambitious problem-solving.
Scene at MIT: A nanoscientist graduates with her very good boy
Vinny the dog dressed up in a graduation gown to celebrate MIT Commencement alongside his human, chemical engineering PhD graduate Michelle Quien.
AMD CEO Lisa Su tells grads they shape the future, not AI
AMD CEO Lisa Su tells MIT graduates that knowing how to use the tools isn’t enough—and the impacts from AI are “actually our responsibilities.”
Massachusetts Commits $25 Million to Anchor MIT’s Landmark Quantum Systems Laboratory
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has pledged up to $25 million in matching state funds to support the construction of a state-of-the-art Quantum Systems Labora...
Massachusetts Invests $25 Million in MIT Quantum Lab
MIT and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced the Quantum Systems Laboratory at MIT, backed by a $25 million state investment.
MIT's new method can extract lithium from hard rock at room temperature
MIT and other researchers have developed a low-temperature, closed-loop extraction process that uses a liquid reagent to dissolve the most common lithium-bearin...
MIT Scientists May Have Found a Way to Pull Lithium From Rocks Without Trashing the Planet
If scaled up, this method could easily address the biggest issues in lithium mining, as well as the looming supply crisis for the valuable element.
MIT researchers develop a low-cost technique to get lithium out of rocks
MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the common mineral spodumene. The closed-loop process could help t...
FARK.com: (14081068) MIT President: You know, I'm not much on speeches, but it's so gratifying to leave you wallowing in the anti-science mess you've made. You're screwed, thank you, bye
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Place-based pathways to a viable future
Actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change require different approaches in different places. The Living Climate Futures Symposium brought together communit...
Designing a career, on and off the track, at MIT
MIT senior Krystal Montgomery explored design courses to shape a career in web development. As a national champion in track, learning to balance athletics and a...