Peter Dizikes

For years, Suzanne Berger has been a leading advocate for US industry. Now she’s co-directing MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing, a platform to help the country make more goods.

Tom Zeller’s new book sheds light on one of the world’s most confounding and agonizing ailments.

A computer vision study reveals changes in pedestrian behavior since 1980.

The star pitcher has been studying aerospace engineering at MIT. Now his pitches will take flight in professional baseball.

Builders pour concrete into temporary wooden molds. MIT researchers invented a way to make them out of on-site soil instead.

Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. He thinks we should slow down and make sure we’re using AI the right way.

The awards honor work on gene regulation and the relationship between political systems and economic growth.

Difficulty with complex sentence processing could be a clue that someone may develop Alzheimer’s.

A new study maps where the US employment market will change most during the move to clean energy.

Media might deepen partisan divides, but we should measure reading habits more carefully before drawing conclusions—and avoid assuming that our own thought processes are the only rational ones.

The Chinese government has enhanced its power—and the country’s tech sector—by using AI-based facial recognition to help stifle dissent.

As the Institute formally celebrated her arrival, President Kornbluth celebrated curiosity and called for “Rad Lab–level thinking and commitment” to address the climate crisis.

Research using a Boston admissions lottery adds evidence that early education has long-term benefits.

Blame self-checkouts, assembly-line robots, and similar technology for most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980.

Amy Finkelstein examines the core issue in the industry: Who gets to be a customer?

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design will create a hub for design education, research, and entrepreneurship on campus. The interdisciplinary careers of its faculty directors, John Ochsendorf and Maria Yang ’91, offer a glimpse of the possibilities in store.

As he steps down, President L. Rafael Reif opens up about the experiences and ideals that shaped his tenure at the helm of the Institute.

The Institute will back more research in Native American studies and support community efforts on campus, among other measures.

Minimum-wage increases lead to higher election participation.

A new report finds that material needs are the main motive for immigration from Central America to the US.