Some technology companies have found manipulative ways to inspire irrational levels of devotion. Should we be worried?

From cataloguing the year’s biggest breakthroughs in emerging technology to exploring the far future, 2024 kept us busy.

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation.

As machine learning and generative AI reshape the world, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is integrating these and other ...

From cataloguing the year’s biggest breakthroughs in emerging technology to exploring the far future, 2024 kept us busy. The game was created from clips and keyboard inputs alone, as a demo for ...

The annual three-day Mystery Hunt returns to campus January 17. Here’s how last year’s puzzle marathon played out.

Despite increasing evidence that water flowed on Mars billions of years ago, scientists have been mystified by what happened ...

Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had ...

And as we worked our way through the project milestones from proposal through flight readiness review, we kept in mind that ...

Two MIT professors, an alumnus, and a former postdoc are among the winners of 2024’s Nobel Prizes.

In a practical sense, it’s designed to help our scholars in human­-centered disciplines “go big.” MITHIC will give them the ...

A new system could make brackish groundwater drinkable at low cost in communities where seawater and grid power are limited.