Assistant professor explores how risk sharing and mutual aid shifted to individual forms of protection.

Headed by Carl Thompson, the newly formed Materials Research Laboratory opens up opportunities for industrial partnerships.

Lab will work with Chinese company on research in artificial intelligence, language processing, and human-computer interaction.

MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.

New fellowship program honoring trailblazing Nobel laureate awards four MIT postdocs focused on drug discovery and development.

Year-long program will give early-stage entrepreneurs a leg up in the functional fabrics industry.

Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds.

At the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, researchers are training computers to recognize dynamic events.

At annual event, Boston Globe’s Spotlight team discusses its latest investigation into racism in Boston.

Cutting kirigami-style slits in stretchy films could make for bandages, heat pads, and wearable electronics that adhere to flexible surfaces.