Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe
In 2022, Randall Pietersen, a civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force, set out on a training mission to assess damage at an airfield runway,…
Robotic helper making mistakes? Just nudge it in the right direction
Imagine that a robot is helping you clean the dishes. You ask it to grab a soapy bowl out of the sink, but its gripper slightly misses the…
3 Questions: Visualizing research in the age of AI
For over 30 years, science photographer Felice Frankel has helped MIT professors, researchers, and students communicate their work visually.…
Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award
MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed…
Collaborating to advance research and innovation on essential chips for AI
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries. MIT and GlobalFoundries (GF), a…
An ancient RNA-guided system could simplify delivery of gene editing therapies
A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Broad Institute of MIT and…
AI system predicts protein fragments that can bind to or inhibit a target
All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions facilitate everything…
Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on different types of…
MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease
Biology is never simple. As researchers make strides in reading and editing genes to treat disease, for instance, a growing body of evidence…
AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go
Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a…