Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply.

Most cities don’t map their own pedestrian networks. Now, researchers have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that.

An experiment in Amsterdam reveals how pilfered bicycles are put to use.

Study: Even chess experts perform worse when air quality is lower, suggesting a negative effect on cognition.

New research quantifies how much very hot temperatures restrict outdoor activity in China.

University placements through MISTI aim to help grow the African research ecosystem.

MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows chart a new course.

“Distance Unknown,” an exhibition by MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab, documents the often challenging journeys migrants undertake to gain economic opportunity and food security.

An experiment using data from 20 million LinkedIn profiles shows how much we rely on people we know less well to land new jobs.

At MIT, social networks with “weak ties,” which help foster new ideas, declined during the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers report.