How do people become addicted to online games and social networking sites?
By using them. The principles of online interaction aren’t so different from those of a slot machine…
Project Sandcastle
On a foggy night in San Francisco, a Bat-Signal appears in the sky. It flickers above a house on the highest hilltop in the city, whe...
Future Engineers
We are dedicated to making science and engineering open to everyone. Too often, kids’ zip codes play a larger role in determining t...
Prepping a Robot for Its Journey to Mars
Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped w...
The Ingestible Bacterial-Electronic Sensor
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stoma...
Advancing Nuclear Power and Empowering Girls
When she was 16, Monica Pham mapped out her future. “My chemistry teacher was talking about how atoms could generate unlimited powe...
The Warmup
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They have a promising idea, a series of ...
Creating “Big, Beautiful Things”
Garrett Parrish grew up singing and dancing as a theater kid, influenced by his older siblings, one of whom is an actor and the other...
Giving
At MIT, we let our work speak for itself. Our kind of engineer views praise as an invitation to tackle the next problem—the harder,...
Professional Education
We can help you take the next step in your career. Our Professional Education program provides a gateway to MIT knowledge and experti...