New MIT-hosted database is open to both examiners and the wider public, and seeks to reduce the number of wrongly-issued patents.
The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab is organizing the second annual Global Summit on Community Biotechn...
At 21, Jaylen Brown is a polymath and a rising star in the NBA with the Boston Celtics.
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
Leveraging the web’s power to create open, community-sourced access to knowledge
Climate change presents a grave threat to overall human well-being, including mental health.
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative lea...
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Cryptography techniques to screen synthetic DNA could help prevent the creation of dangerous pathogens, argues Professor Kevin Esvelt
A new opera inspired by the life of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, exploring his life in Los Angeles after fleeing Hitler's Europe....
Integrating sensors and actuators using flexible electronicsCurrently, the manufacturing of self-actuating and self-sensing robots requir...
Fall is here, hear the yell/Back to school, ring the bell
Sensing and monitoring pH can convey critical information about brain tumors.
Winner and finalists in Fast Company's 2018 awards
Rethinking photography optics in the time dimensionWhat if we could design optics in time instead of space?
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit...
FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated mate...
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and cap...
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances ...
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
All Hands on Deck will convene leaders in ocean exploration to imagine new ways to empower an inclusive global community of explorers.
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.
It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
Announcing the Global Council on Extended Intelligence
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...
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A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information to support mental wellbeingBioEssence is a novel wearable olfac...
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
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...
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.
New cohort brings social, scientific, and creative experience to extend the Lab’s reach beyond academia.
An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering
Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of sci...
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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University.
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
60 Minutes goes inside the MIT Media Lab.
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 ...
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...
The MIT Museum presents The Beautiful Brain, featuring the drawings of neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal, alongside an interact...
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?
Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.
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...
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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.
The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is the world's leading data visualization tool for international trade data. The OEC makes m...
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: tha...