Artemis 1: maiden flight of spacecraft set to take humans back to the Moon – here's what needs to go right

Will humans be back on the Moon by 2025? It depends on how well the imminent launch of Artemis-1 goes.

Gareth Dorrian, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham • conversation
Aug. 25, 2022 ~8 min

Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving

MIT scientists unveil the first open-source simulation engine capable of constructing realistic environments for deployable training and testing of autonomous vehicles.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 21, 2022 ~8 min


MIT engineers devise a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system

A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
June 21, 2022 ~7 min

MIT unveils new Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel

A state-of-the-art facility replaces a nearly 80-year-old campus landmark to become the most advanced wind tunnel in U.S. academia.

Sara Cody | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics • mit
June 8, 2022 ~20 min

MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces recipients of inaugural MCSC Seed Awards

Twenty winning projects will link industry member priorities with research groups across campus to develop scalable climate solutions.

Molly Chase | Climate and Sustainability Consortium • mit
May 23, 2022 ~15 min

Charting a safe course through a highly uncertain environment

A new technique can safely guide an autonomous robot without knowledge of its environmental conditions or the size, shape, or location of obstacles it might encounter.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 19, 2022 ~7 min

Lessons on diplomacy, sustainability of International Space Station

Soyeon Yi, the first Korean astronaut, details her experiences with Americans and Russians while on a mission on the International Space Station.

Nikki Rojas • harvard
May 10, 2022 ~5 min

Unpacking black-box models

Researchers create a mathematical framework to evaluate explanations of machine-learning models and quantify how well people understand them.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 5, 2022 ~7 min


Anticipating others’ behavior on the road

A new machine-learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians in real-time.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
April 21, 2022 ~8 min

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.

MIT News Office • mit
April 7, 2022 ~13 min

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