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A team, including researchers in @MIT_CEE, has developed a way to 3D-print concrete while accounting for the physical limitations of large-scale concrete printers.
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A team, including researchers in @MITMechE, hopes to cut down on the growing mountain of textile waste, with a new, recyclable yarn.
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As a fifth-year PhD candidate in @mit_dmse, Hugh Smith studies sodium-ion batteries, an emerging alternative to the lithium-ion batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles.
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A new 3D-printing system created by MIT researchers enables users to produce interactive objects, which change their appearance when they are pressed, slid, or turned, without the use of any internal electronics.
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A team from @MITMechE has developed a robotic therapy system that learns from physical therapists to adaptively support stroke patients.
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In a @NatureEnergyJnl paper, a team, including researchers in @MIT_CEE, developed a climate-informed framework that identifies where to build energy systems so they are more resilient and reduce blackouts.
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Roomba creator and @MITMechE alum Eliot Mack SM ’96 launched Lightcraft Technology, a company whose specialized equipment helps filmmakers see in advance how their digitized special effects will look in the completed movie.
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A team, including researchers in @MITEECS, developed a method that makes robots better at thinking ahead while they are acting, such as when folding laundry, leading to smoother motions and quicker reactions.
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In a @ScienceMagazine paper, a team, including researchers in @MITMechE created a robot that mimics how diving birds seamlessly transition between flying and swimming.
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Devavrat Shah, a professor in @MITEECS and member of @mitidss, is focused on designing AI systems that can handle second-by-second decision-making using limited computational resources.
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A team, including researchers in @MITMechE, found they can engineer and control the growth of blood vessels by mechanically stretching them, a step toward finding a way to deliver nutrients to artificial tissues.
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In a @NatureComms paper, MIT researchers designed a new system, called “FloatForm,” an adaptive floating infrastructure that could be used as a temporary platform or a stage that appears for a festival and dissolves when the crowd goes home.
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This spring, 7 teams comprised of 31 MIT engineering undergraduates set off to design, fabricate, assemble, and test a small gas turbine aero engine in 4 weeks, using AI as their primary engineering partner. The project was part of the JARVIS Challenge.
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Introducing MIT Engineering Monthly – a new roundup of the latest groundbreaking, cool, nerdy, and innovative research from across the MIT School of Engineering.
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A team, including researchers in @MIT_CEE, opened its first solar-powered community shelter to protect residents from extreme heat and tropical storms in Bangladesh, where temperatures can reach 111 degrees Fahrenheit.
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A team led by Professor Xuanhe Zhao in @MITMechE designed a hydrogel that is both hydrated and permeable to air.
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In a new Science Translational Medicine study by a team including MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoc Seyed Majed Modaresi and Prof. James Collins from @MITdeptofBE, researchers used deep learning to identify promising new compounds against drug-resistant gonorrhea.
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Chris Caplice, a Senior Research Scientist and the Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, is a recipient of the 2026 School of Engineering Distinguished Educator Award.
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Lydia Bourouiba, a professor in @MIT_CEE, @MITMechE, and @MIT_IMES, received the 2026 MathWorks Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship (FRIF).
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What if you could speak words to an AI-driven robot that could then turn those words into a physical object? That’s the exact question driving the research of Alexander Htet Kyaw, a PhD student in @MITEECS.
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Four MIT faculty members have been named to the Forbes 50 Over 50: Innovation list, including Dean Paula Hammond; MIT EECS Professor Dina Katabi; Nergis Mavalvala, Dean of the School of Science; and MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab Director Aude Oliva.
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Matteo Bucci, a professor in @mit_nse, has received the 2027 MathWorks Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship (FRIF).
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Remotely operated underwater vehicles often get stuck in murky conditions—when sediment clouds block cameras and halt operations. A new mapping technique developed by @MITAeroAstro engineers and others may change that.
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In a @NatureNano paper, a team led by @MITChemE Professor Michael Strano has developed a new way to regularly monitor bladder cancer patients, which could allow for much earlier detection of regrowing tumors.
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Ashia Wilson, a professor in @MITEECS, is a recipient of the 2026 Junior Bose Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding contributor to education.
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MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings. This is the 15th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
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A team, including researchers in @MIT_DMSE, has developed a process for extracting battery-grade lithium from rocks.
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Engineers in @MITAeroAstro are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters with the precision and fuel-efficiency of electrical thrusters.
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After losing family and close colleagues to cancer, @MITdeptofBE and @MIT_DMSE Professor Angela Belcher began researching how to detect the disease sooner, before it spreads.
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A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has created a way to precisely move tens of thousands of individual atoms within a material in minutes at room temperature.
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MIT engineers have developed an approach using computer vision to assess children with cerebral palsy (CP), a common childhood neurological disorder caused by atypical brain development or brain damage that affects movement, muscle tone, and posture.
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To address the costly challenges in manufacturing plant fertilizer, Chris Voigt, a professor and department head in @MITdeptofBE, co-founded @PivotBio, a company focused on using microbes to replace a significant share of synthetic fertilizer.
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For the first time, a team, including researchers from @MIT_DMSE, directly characterized the 3D atomic structure of a material called relaxor ferroelectric, which has been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar systems.
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Zach Hartwig, @MIT_NSE professor, has long been drawn to the hardest problem he could find: how to recreate the limitless power of the sun here on Earth, through fusion energy.
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In a @NaturePhotonics paper, MIT engineers have designed nanotechnology devices that could be used for applications involving the manipulation of visible light — like optical computing.
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A team led by @MITEECS Professor Sixian You discovered that, under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused “pencil beam.”
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Reframe Systems, co-founded by @MITSDM alum Vikas Enti SDM ’20, is tackling the national housing shortage by deploying robotic microfactories that build homes exactly where they are needed.
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By targeting how proteins move rather than just how they look, a team led by @MIT_CEE and @MITMechE Professor Markus Buehler is opening a new frontier for adaptive therapeutics and dynamic biomaterials.
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A new study published in @Nature by researchers in @MIT_DMSE offers insights into metallic cracks called dendrites that harm battery performance.
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A team of researchers led by @MITMechE Professor Kripa Varanasi uncovered the physics behind bubble-removing membranes that could improve bioreactors, chemical production, and more.
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In a @NatureElectron paper, a team, including researchers in @MITMechE, designed an ultrasound wristband that precisely tracks a wearer’s hand movements in real-time.
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This winter, students attended a workshop at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms on Raman spectroscopy. The technique uses laser light to “fingerprint” materials, which can help identify materials in fields ranging from law enforcement to art restoration.
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A team, including researchers in @MITAeroAstro, has developed a generative AI-driven approach for planning long-term visual tasks, like robot navigation, that is about twice as effective as some existing techniques.
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Professor of @MITMechE Lallit Anand’s new book, Introduction to Coupled Theories in Solid Mechanics, develops modern large deformation coupled theories for soft materials while bridging theory and computation.
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MIT engineers have developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver. This would help patients who are on a waitlist for a liver transplant or those who aren’t healthy enough to tolerate surgery.
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A team, including researchers in @MITMechE, developed a magnetic mixer to improve 3D bioprinting, in which living tissues are printed with cells mixed into soft hydrogels.
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