Using a new technology, researchers hope to create better control systems for prosthetic limbs.
A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity.
Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.
A new study shows how small-scale actions could improve air quality and health outcomes.
MIT researchers developed and studied a customized AI training program for users with varied backgrounds, which could be delivered across large organizations.
New research quantifies how much very hot temperatures restrict outdoor activity in China.
A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course MAS.S64 (How to Grow (Almost) Anything) leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology.
Study: Even chess experts perform worse when air quality is lower, suggesting a negative effect on cognition.
Most cities don’t map their own pedestrian networks. Now, researchers have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that.
Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply.
Using ultrasonic waves that propel drug molecules into the skin, the patch could be used to treat a variety of skin conditions.
Analysis of long-term monitoring data for almost 1,500 species in Finland shows that four decades of climate change has led species to shift between the “better” and “worse” parts of their climatic niches, and that these impacts were most pronounced at higher latitudes.
Global warming has a particularly pronounced impact on the Alpine region. Like the Arctic, this European mountain range is becoming greener. Snow cover is also decreasing, albeit so far only slightly.
A study in social psychology recently completed at the University of Helsinki indicates that there are not many thoroughly girlish girls or boyish boys. It examines the girlishness and boyishness of Finnish adolescents completing their basic education.
MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.
The findings suggest voting by incarcerated people is unlikely to affect electoral outcomes, in contrast to some assumptions.
Low-wage workers, who vote infrequently, gain a participation boost when their salaries increase.
According to a new study, long-term insomnia symptoms can pose a risk of poorer cognitive functioning later in life. This is why insomnia should be treated as early as possible.
Political emotions play a significant role in the establishment of a democratic culture and in the political mobilisation of young people, which is why they should be discussed in education.
MIT Center for International Studies and Security Studies Program offer new resources for modeling human behavior and decision-making in real-world scenarios.