During Campus Preview Weekend, prospective students got a chance to challenge current members of MIT Wrestling—and check out ...

For more than 60 years, Professor Gilbert Strang has turned a linear algebra classroom at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Requests to datasets from San Francisco Open Data have skyrocketed since the introduction of AI coding assistants.

There’s now more evidence why professors are begging University of California overseers to reinstate standardized testing — as shocking rates of students are failing computer science courses at the ...

CAMBRIDGE — Clouds moved in just minutes before the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s commencement ceremony began Thursday afternoon, sending graduates and families scrambling for ponchos and ...

Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at Rockefeller University in New York at 3 a.m ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said Thursday that the school’s research enterprise has shrunk 10 percent from a year ago and warned of a persistent drop in graduate admissions as the university ...

For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic structure remained a mystery—until now. Researchers have finally mapped ...

Ambitious research is on the chopping block following yet more cuts at the National Science Foundation. This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the ...

As the immune system weakens with age, scientists have found a way to restore some of its lost strength. By delivering mRNA to the liver, they created a temporary source of immune-boosting signals ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with L. Rafael Reif, former president of MIT, about his recent essay in Foreign Affairs, "America Is Losing the Innovation Race: Why the Future of Science Might Be Chinese." ...