Helping data storage keep up with the AI revolution

Storage systems from Cloudian, co-founded by an MIT alumnus, are helping businesses feed data-hungry AI models and agents at scale.

How MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations

With dual degrees and a passion for leadership, Leaders for Global Operations graduates transform Amazon’s fulfillment network while mentoring future leaders.

AI helps chemists develop tougher plastics

Researchers created polymers that are more resistant to tearing by incorporating stress-responsive molecules identified by a machine-learning model.

MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects

By visualizing Escher-like optical illusions in 2.5 dimensions, the “Meschers” tool could help scientists understand physics-defying shapes and spark new designs.

Youssef Marzouk appointed associate dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

AeroAstro professor and outgoing co-director of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering will play a vital role in fostering community for bilingual computing faculty.

Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation

Nanophotonic devices developed at MIT are compact, efficient, reprogrammable, adaptive, and able to dynamically respond to external inputs.

Ushering in a new era of suture-free tissue reconstruction for better healing

MIT spinout Tissium recently secured FDA marketing authorization of a biopolymer platform for nerve repair.

How government accountability and responsiveness affect tax payment

Study participants in an in-person tax-paying experiment in China were more likely to pay their taxes if government officials were monitoring and punishing corruption.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 14 new faculty for 2025

New professors join Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Economics, History, Linguistics and Philosophy, Music and Theater Arts, and Political Science.

How the brain distinguishes oozing fluids from solid objects

A new study finds parts of the brain’s visual cortex are specialized to analyze either solid objects or flowing materials like water or sand.