MIT engineers’ new model could help researchers glean insights from genomic data and other huge datasets.

Researchers show that even the best-performing large language models don’t form a true model of the world and its rules, and can thus fail unexpectedly on similar tasks.

Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care.

Researchers are leveraging quantum mechanical properties to overcome the limits of silicon semiconductor technology.

Extraction of nickel, an essential component of clean energy technologies, needs stronger policies to protect local environments and communities, MIT researchers say.

MIT engineers’ algorithm may have wide impact, from forecasting climate to projecting population growth to designing efficient aircraft.

Researchers across MIT are working on ways to boost food production and help crops survive drought.

By snugly wrapping around neurons, these devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.

By emulating a magnetic field on a superconducting quantum computer, researchers can probe complex properties of materials.

The scientists’ wide-scale acoustic mapping technique could help track vulnerable keystone species.