Faces of MIT: Gabi Hott Soares

Through mentorship, enthusiasm, and a global perspective, Gabi Hott Soares supports student leaders at MIT.

Three from MIT named 2026 Goldwater Scholars

Rising seniors Deeksha Kumaresh, Anna Liu, and Charlotte Myers are honored for their academic achievements.

MIT takes top team honors in 86th Putnam Math Competition

The undergraduate team topped the scoreboard for sixth year in a row and also took the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize again.

New chip can protect wireless biomedical devices from quantum attacks

Ultra-efficient chip design enables extremely strong cryptography algorithms to run on energy-constrained edge devices.

MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026

The prestigious honor society honors four MIT faculty and 13 additional MIT alumni among more than 250 new members.

Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.

Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

Experiments by MIT engineers show rice seeds sprout faster to the sound of rain.

T.L. Taylor named 2026-27 CASBS Fellow

MIT professor will use the fellowship in behavioral sciences to advance a book on theme parks as immersive systems, extending her research from digital worlds to physical ones.

New study bridges the worlds of classical and quantum physics

The weird quantum behavior of subatomic particles can be understood through everyday classical ideas, MIT researchers show.

Two MIT alumnae named 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholars

Mitali Chowdhury ’24 and Christina Kim ’24 will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University in the UK.