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Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
The Pandemic Supermind Activation brings together leaders in the biosciences and beyond, harnessing the power of h…
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
Alex Berke and Kent Larson, City Science group, MIT Media Lab (2020). https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157499
Researchers from the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms and others show that yeast can be used as a low-cost filter to remove lead from water.
MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
In addition to a large number of membrane proteins that comprise most alpha-helix transmembrane segments, there are also many transmembrane…
Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Caicedo, H.H., Darrow, J.J., Caicedo, J.C. et al. Prioritizing Early Disease Intervention. Ther Innov Regul Sci 57, 1148–1152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43441-023-00569-3
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With on…
As we work to improve prosthetic care in the US and in countries around the world, we are committed to learning from our most valuable asse…
More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
The field of public health has transformed medicine, yet failed the most vulnerable. This trajectory can be avoided.
Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, addressing sweeping problems such as food insecurity + climate change
A new paper published by Kevin Esvelt lays out a blueprint for preventing, preparing for, and responding to future pandemics.
The system measures biological and environmental changes, and detects contact between the mask and the wearer’s skin.
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We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TES)…
General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ti…
Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Academi…
Foodborne pathogens are a major source of human morbidity, food recalls, and economic loss. Current detection methods for foodborne pathoge…
Dr. Shah and his research lab at MIT has significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the labora…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
A capsule that tunnels through mucus in the GI tract could be used to orally administer large protein drugs such as insulin.
"No one would ever expect people to build their own heart valves at home"-- Francesca Riccio-Ackerman on inequity in the prosthetic field.
Francesca Riccio-Ackerman and co-authors consider advances in the treatment of conditions associated with aging.
In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
As a graduate student at MIT, Rob Morris struggled with mental health. Today, he wants to make it easier for others to find help online.
A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
Kevin Esvelt and Gigi Gronvall join Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinky to discuss Gain of Function research, and Covid Origin Theory.
CNBC profiles Headspace Health, which was formed through a merger between spinoff Ginger and meditation + mindfulness app company Headspace.
Berke A, Doorley R, Alonso L, Arroyo V, Pons M, & Larson, K. (2022) Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra. PLOS ONE 17(4): e0264860. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264860
Doorley, R., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L., Ribó, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1), pp.183-193.
Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma
MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.
As developers of prosthetic technology, we’re dedicated to understanding the challenges that people with limb loss face, not just after amp…
Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University (…
Kevin Esvelt calls on the research community to build defenses against future pandemics, not attempt to discover viruses that cause them.
Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.
Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.
By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer
Congratulations to the team at Media Lab spinoff Ginger, which is merging with Headspace!