Innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs worldwide are waiting on news of the first companies chosen to be part of The Engine. Founde...

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...

When Bobby Forster proposed to his girlfriend, they were both covered in beads and face paint, among the hordes at Mardi Gras in New ...

The Lemelson-MIT Program has announced the national debut of an award-winning documentary that celebrates invention: American Public...

It started with a cat. A figurine kitty with a blue-green patina that indicated it was made of copper that had oxidized. But was it? ...

Since its founding in 1998, Vecna Technologies has developed a number of ways to help hospitals care for patients. The company has pr...

At the age of 22, when Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out, she was told it would take three months to see...

Many scientists and researchers still rely on Excel spreadsheets and lab notebooks to manage data from their experiments. That can wo...

As a child, Institute Professor Robert S. Langer was captivated by the “magic” of the chemical reactions in a toy chemistry set. ...

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, Regina Barzilay soon learned that good data about the disease is hard to find. Now Barzilay is ...