The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is distancing itself from a headline-making paper about AI’s purported ability to accelerate the speed of science. Toner-Rodgers’ work even earned ...

In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long been capable of moving vehicles, assembling chips, and reaching the far ...

Friction keeps the system moving. MIT’s research shows that 5% of GenAI pilots succeed by embracing resistance, both human and organizational, as well as technical, as the crucible of adaptation and ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced it will shut down its DEI office, joining a raft of universities scrambling to scale back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid ...

Humans began mixing crushed limestone with water to make cement over 2,000 years ago, and the material is still in use today as the main ingredient in concrete. Concrete is the second-most used ...

Some Massachusetts Institute of Technology departments use so-called broader impact statements in the hiring process in the ...

MIT has become the latest in a string of elite American universities — including Harvard — to distance itself from the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as President Donald Trump continues ...

MIT will not sign onto a White House compact that would have provided expedited access to federal grants, in exchange for meeting President Trump's political priorities. MIT President Sally Kornbluth ...