New maps show airplane contrails over the U.S. dropped steeply in 2020

The computer-vision technique behind these maps could help avoid contrail production, reducing aviation’s climate impact.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 7, 2022 ~7 min

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness into climate solutions

Faculty leaders discuss the opportunities and obstacles in developing, scaling, and implementing their work rapidly.

MIT News Office • mit
March 4, 2022 ~9 min


How to help humans understand robots

Theories from cognitive science and psychology could help humans learn to collaborate with robots faster and more effectively, scientists find.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
March 2, 2022 ~7 min

How well do explanation methods for machine-learning models work?

Researchers develop a way to test whether popular methods for understanding machine-learning models are working correctly.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 18, 2022 ~9 min

MIT engineers test an idea for a new hovering rover

A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 21, 2021 ~7 min

Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds?

A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 20, 2021 ~7 min

System trains drones to fly around obstacles at high speeds

New algorithm could enable fast, nimble drones for time-critical operations such as search and rescue.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 10, 2021 ~7 min

Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.

Sarah Beckmann | MIT Media Lab • mit
July 28, 2021 ~10 min


Sertac Karaman named director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics will head MIT’s longest continuously-running lab.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
July 12, 2021 ~3 min

Creating “digital twins” at scale

Model could help predictive virtual models become standard practice in engineering.

Becky Ham | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics • mit
June 14, 2021 ~7 min

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