From cataloguing the year’s biggest breakthroughs in emerging technology to exploring the far future, 2024 kept us busy.

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation.

If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?

As machine learning and generative AI reshape the world, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is integrating these and other ...

Some technology companies have found manipulative ways to inspire irrational levels of devotion. Should we be worried?

The annual three-day Mystery Hunt returns to campus January 17. Here’s how last year’s puzzle marathon played out.

And as we worked our way through the project milestones from proposal through flight readiness review, we kept in mind that ...

Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had ...

In a practical sense, it’s designed to help our scholars in human­-centered disciplines “go big.” MITHIC will give them the ...

Despite increasing evidence that water flowed on Mars billions of years ago, scientists have been mystified by what happened ...

A new system could make brackish groundwater drinkable at low cost in communities where seawater and grid power are limited.

Two MIT professors, an alumnus, and a former postdoc are among the winners of 2024’s Nobel Prizes.