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An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion
I grew up in a small town in Transylvania, and will always remember the day when I assembled my first computer and loaded the first mp3 s...
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering
Friday May 4, 2018 ...
Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of sci...
Interaction Design category
Tuesday April 24, 2018 ...
AlterEgo is a closed-loop, non-invasive, wearable system that allows humans to converse in high-bandwidth natural language with mach...
The MIT Museum presents The Beautiful Brain, featuring the drawings of neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal, alongside an interact...
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind: A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.
Guy Satat and Tyler Clites won in the "Drive It!" and "Cure It!" categories, respectively
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
How can a cryptocurrency be worth anything in the first place? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Imagine a future where lights are not fixed to the ceiling, but follow us wherever we are. In this colorful world we enjoy lighting that ...
The applications of the caricature generator in the areas of teleconferencing, games, and interactive graphic interfaces are explored.
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that al...
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
Space will be hackable. Space will be playful. Space grows ever more accessible to the space enthusiast.
We investigated the spread of all of the verified news stories–verified as either true or false–distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017....
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Celebrating Brain Awareness Week with a look at some of the Media Lab's brain research
EEEeb Spring 2018: April 15, 29; May 13, 27; June 3. To register, please visit this link.Sponsored and run by members of ...
A chemistry, design, and R&D collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc.
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
Award-winning science fiction author Neal Stephenson
On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: tha...
Media Lab researchers are teaming up with public librarians to design new projects and programs for libraries.
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
The new issue looks at designing a complex and unknowable future with machines
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with huma...
Researchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publicly acknowledging...
Reimagining research for life in space
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
The Conformable Decoders group is now home to a state-of-the-art cleanroom called the "YellowBox."
Take control of your social feed.Gobo is a social media aggregator with filters you control. You can use Gobo to control what’s edited ou...
design(human)design is a tool that builds on insights about the design process inspired by research carried out at IDEO Cambridge. The id...
How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
Enlarging clinical samples for imaging to understand the building blocks of pathologies with nanoscale precision