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Tecnológico de Monterrey students who participated in an MIT research internship program pose together with MIT students.

MIT-designed educational factory embraces modern manufacturing

07.08.26
Hearts were used as a music visualizer during Carlos Mariano Salcedo’s ’25, SM ’26 presentation with Noble Harasha ’25, SM ’26 playing a modular synthesizer (left); PhD student Valerie K. Chen ’22, MEng ’23 played cello in

Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students

06.29.26
The aerial-aquatic robot can swim underwater, then flap out of the water to continue flying through air, much like diving birds.

New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird

07.09.26
MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian is proposing a way to determine if a satellite contains a nuclear weapon.

MIT researcher proposes a way to detect nuclear weapons in space

07.08.26
MIT and Technical University of Munich researchers uncovered tiny electrical imbalances between crystals of solid electrolyte material that hurt the performance of solid-state batteries.

Discovery helps explain why solid-state batteries often fail

07.06.26
“Now that we’ve added air to hydrogels, people can find broad applications,” says Xuanhe Zhao. Here, a rectangular hydrogel floats on top of water.

MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel

07.08.26
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While most AI models have been taught using text and images, a system developed by Devavrat Shah takes tabular data as its input — structured data such as the row-and-column format used in spreadsheets — and then provides real-time planning on a large scale.

Helping AI models to meet the real world

07.14.26