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Tiny infrared chip could improve detection of gases and heat: The tunable device controls mid-infrared light for more precise thermal imaging, chemical sensing, or pollution monitoring. news.mit.edu/2026/tiny-infra…
By improving the performance and efficiency of AI-driven computer-aided design generation, this technique could streamline the rapid prototyping process and reduce costs. It could also help engineers identify beneficial design choices they might otherwise overlook. news.mit.edu/2026/turning-2d…
MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels: With mechanical stretching, MIT engineers can control how artificial arteries sprout new capillaries. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engine…
The MIT Combat Robotics Club (CRC) uses the tagline “build, battle, destroy, repeat,” which is a pretty spot-on description for a club that embraces learning opportunities through destruction. news.mit.edu/2026/dream-buil…
ALT Two students in team T-shirts gaze intensely through a glass wall, one of them operating a remote control.transparent panel in front of the competitors.
ALT A battle robot fight scene with sparks flying. A small, red robot faces off against a larger, spinning blue robot. The arena floor is scuffed and marked.
ALT A crowd gathers around a large, transparent arena where a robot battle is taking place. Spectators are seated and standing, observing the action inside. Monitors are positioned above the arena for a clearer view. The atmosphere is lively and focused on the competition.
MIT-led team receives funding to develop a wearable monitor for early disease detection. The team aims to create a low-power, noninvasive sensor patch that measures heart failure and sepsis biomarkers in real-time. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-led-te…
MIT professors discuss a new project to track how AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. news.mit.edu/2026/qa-hey-ai-…
Engineers have developed a nanoscale particle for delivering personalized cancer vaccines. The particle could be adapted to carry many different antigens, to potentially prevent or treat individual patients’ tumors. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engine…
MIT engineers designed a robotic enteroscope that can inch through the hard-to-reach small intestine, making biopsies and drug delivery easier. news.mit.edu/2026/soft-robot…
MIT researchers developed a new type of origami-based construction method that could be used to build complex structures that are cheaper and easier to assemble, and use less material than those built with some conventional techniques. news.mit.edu/2026/origami-ba…
ALT A foldable metal sculpture suspended at the Boston Public Library
Researchers designed an implantable drug-delivery device they hope could prevent recurrence of glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor. Ultrasound transducers printed onto the device use sound waves to help drugs pass through the blood-brain barrier. news.mit.edu/2026/implantabl…
A new computer simulation shows how the universe’s earliest galaxies, stars, and other structures likely developed during the first 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The model includes extremely fine details across huge volumes of space. news.mit.edu/2026/watch-univ…
After transferring from community college, Veronica Calzadilla Sosa helped make MIT a new force on the chemical engineering student competition circuit. “Experiences like this remind me how much engineering extends beyond technical knowledge alone,” the senior says. news.mit.edu/2026/persistenc…
MIT announces the MIT for America initiative. The effort aims to help U.S. learners from kindergarten to community college, with an emphasis on math, making, and the constructive use of AI. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-americ…
An MIT spinout is making surgical stitching more like applying tape: SanaHeal has developed a biologically compatible adhesive that sticks to wet tissues. Its product was inspired by sticky materials in nature, like barnacles and spider webs. news.mit.edu/2026/sanaheal-m…
AI has reshaped materials science by proposing new structures. But many potential structures are stored in databases, inaccessible to large language models. To overcome this, researchers created a vision-language model for crystalline materials. news.mit.edu/2026/giving-ai-…
Researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) analyzed over 15,000 ice cliffs in Antarctica to reveal how they behave over time. news.mit.edu/2026/satellite-…
A new technique significantly improves weather forecasting beyond two weeks. The researchers developed a machine-learning model that learns to correct errors in existing forecasting models to improve their output over the two-to-six-week time frame, including for extreme weather events. news.mit.edu/2026/researcher…
MIT engineers have developed a new way to program natural killer (NK) immune cells to target cancerous T cells or T cells that have become autoreactive, leading to diseases such as lymphoma and autoimmune hepatitis. news.mit.edu/2026/reprogramm…
Rather than asking what AI can do, ImpactBench asks what AI does to people: how it shapes human psychology, autonomy, and wellbeing. media.mit.edu/posts/research…
Economists Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 share Nobel prize: The MIT alumni are honored for work that illuminates how government policy can spur growth in response to economic downturns. news.mit.edu/2026/robert-hal…
