Teen builds an award-winning virtual reality prototype thanks to free MIT courses

Nineteen-year-old Freesia Gaul built a VR prototype thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare classes that provided “a solid foundation of knowledge and problem-solving abilities.”

MIT-Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub convenes leaders to advance pediatric health

The Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub brings together clinicians, researchers, and industry to bridge the gap between discovery and care.

Open Source LLM

A new way to increase the capabilities of large language models

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers developed an expressive architecture that provides better state tracking and sequential reasoning in LLMs over long texts.

New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system

Stimulating the liver to produce some of the signals of the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations and enhance response to vaccination.

Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47

In his 10 years at MIT, Loureiro helped illuminate the physics occurring at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.

How cement “breathes in” and stores millions of tons of CO₂ a year

New analysis provides the first national, bottom-up estimate of cement’s natural carbon dioxide uptake across buildings and infrastructure.

A new immunotherapy approach could work for many types of cancer

Using new molecules that block an immune checkpoint, researchers showed they could stimulate a strong anti-tumor immune response.

“Robot, make me a chair”

An AI-driven system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words.

3 Questions: Using computation to study the world’s best single-celled chemists

Assistant Professor Yunha Hwang utilizes microbial genomes to examine the language of biology. Her appointment reflects MIT’s commitment to exploring the intersection of genetics research and AI.

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions.