In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use

Clinical trial finds several outcomes improved for young children when an anesthesiologist observed their brain waves to guide dosing of sevoflurane during surgery.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
April 29, 2025 ~6 min

Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction

Professor Thomas Peacock’s research aims to better understand the impact of deep-sea mining.

Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering • mit
April 29, 2025 ~5 min


Will the vegetables of the future be fortified using tiny needles?

Researchers showed they can inexpensively produce silk microneedles to deliver vitamins or agrochemicals to plants.

Zach Winn | MIT News • mit
April 29, 2025 ~8 min

A new computational framework illuminates the hidden ecology of diseased tissues

The MESA method uses ecological theory to map cellular diversity and spatial patterns in tissues, offering new insights into disease progression.

Karen Baird | Department of Chemistry • mit
April 28, 2025 ~4 min

Gene circuits enable more precise control of gene therapy

The circuits could help researchers develop new treatments for Fragile X syndrome and other diseases caused by mutations of a single gene.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
April 28, 2025 ~7 min

Granular systems, such as sandpiles or rockslides, are all around you − new research will help scientists describe how they work

It’s extremely difficult to see how forces in a pile of sand are distributed between individual grains – a new experimental approach fixes that.

Jacqueline Reber, Associate Professor of Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, Iowa State University • conversation
April 28, 2025 ~8 min

Designing a new way to optimize complex coordinated systems

Using diagrams to represent interactions in multipart systems can provide a faster way to design software improvements.

MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems • mit
April 24, 2025 ~10 min

Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans

A new approach could enable intuitive robotic helpers for household, workplace, and warehouse settings.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
April 24, 2025 ~9 min


A brief history of expansion microscopy

Since an MIT team introduced expansion microscopy in 2015, the technique has powered the science behind kidney disease, plant seeds, the microbiome, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.

Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
April 23, 2025 ~13 min

New model predicts a chemical reaction’s point of no return

Chemists could use this quick computational method to design more efficient reactions that yield useful compounds, from fuels to pharmaceuticals.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
April 23, 2025 ~8 min

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