MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding ...

Scientists at MIT have discovered that a little-known protein called intelectin-2 plays a powerful double role in defending the gut. The protein strengthens the mucus layer that lines the ...

The MIT4America Calculus Project pairs trained college students with high schoolers across 14 districts, from Montana to Texas.

Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems.

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 ...

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 unveil a new fine-tuning method that lets enterprises consolidate their "model zoos" into a single, continuously learning agent.

AlterEgo, a company born out of MIT's Media Lab, recently shared a demo of its "silent speech" device that looks like ...