A double major in computer science and math, Shen credits lessons from MIT—along with a lifelong passion for drawing—with shaping her career. Her favorite class was Project Laboratory in Mathematics, where students... Read more »

“He’s scared that something bad might happen.” I took our son’s hand and walked toward the entrance. “To you?” he asked. “To all of us.” Theo dragged his feet. I looked at... Read more »

Watch as AI reporter and attorney Michelle Kim, who covered the trial for MIT Technology Review, joins in conversation with editor in chief Mat Honan to go behind the scenes of the... Read more »

While service dogs might be best known for guiding the blind, Canine Companions trains dogs to do such things as open doors for wheelchair users or alert deaf people to doorbells, fire... Read more »

“It uses infrared light that’s barely visible compared to the bright flash of fundus photography [another common method of eye imaging] and provides a lot more information—three-dimensional rather than two-dimensional information—at higher... Read more »

Hannes Stärk, the fourth-year PhD student at CSAIL who built BoltzGen, says the model works because it actually learns—drawing inferences from the data it is trained with and then producing novel ideas... Read more »

In typical conditions, the atmosphere’s layers get colder with altitude, and a heat wave that warms the air at ground level will trigger convection: The warmer, lighter air will rise, prompting colder... Read more »

The researchers used these structures to perform a simple form of matrix vector multiplication, the fundamental mathematical technique machine-learning models like large language models use to process information and make predictions. The... Read more »

Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on Earth. But MIT geobiologists and colleagues have found evidence that... Read more »