New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds

Researchers developed an algorithm that lets a robot “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
June 5, 2025 ~8 min

Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do

SketchAgent, a drawing system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, sketches up concepts stroke-by-stroke, teaching language models to visually express concepts on their own and collaborate with humans.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
June 2, 2025 ~7 min


Is a quantum-cryptography apocalypse imminent?

The news that a certain class of cryptographic algorithms just got 20 times easier to hack has set hares running.

Keith Martin, Professor, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway University of London • conversation
June 2, 2025 ~7 min

Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.

Jeremiah Bartz, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of North Dakota • conversation
May 30, 2025 ~9 min

Critical minerals don’t belong in landfills – microwave tech offers a cleaner way to reclaim them from e-waste

Inside every smartphone and laptop are tiny specks of valuable materials, many of which are still lost even when you take your old electronics to a recycling center.

Terence Musho, Associate Professor of Engineering, West Virginia University • conversation
May 28, 2025 ~8 min

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answer

A large impact could have briefly amplified the moon’s weak magnetic field, creating a momentary spike that was recorded in some lunar rocks.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
May 23, 2025 ~8 min

Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regions

Ground-level ozone in North America and Western Europe may become less sensitive to cutting NOx emissions. The opposite may occur in Northeast Asia.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
May 22, 2025 ~8 min

AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention

This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
May 22, 2025 ~7 min


Learning how to predict rare kinds of failures

Researchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.

MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems • mit
May 21, 2025 ~10 min

Scientists discover potential new targets for Alzheimer’s drugs

Pathways involved in DNA repair and other cellular functions could contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
May 20, 2025 ~7 min

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