February 2, 2026 A portable ultrasound sensor may enable earlier detection of breast cancer The new system could be used at home or in doctors’ offices to scan people who are at high risk for breast cancer. January 29, 2026 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award MIT physicist shares 400,000-euro award for influential work on “magic-angle” graphene. January 15, 2026 Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers New technique could improve the scalability of trapped-ion quantum computers, an essential step toward making them practically useful. January 15, 2026 The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero For their discovery of the “magic angle” enabling science to transform and control the behavior of new materials December 18, 2025 MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025 Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions. December 11, 2025 New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a computer chip, this new approach reduces the amount of energy wasted during computation. December 8, 2025 Health Sciences & Semiconductors: Shaping the Future of Personalized Healthcare Photos November 19, 2025 December 4, 2025 MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions. November 13, 2025 MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene The findings could open a route to new forms of higher-temperature superconductors. November 6, 2025 New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery MIT researchers created microscopic wireless electronic devices that travel through blood and implant in target brain regions, where they provide electrical stimulation. Load More
February 2, 2026 A portable ultrasound sensor may enable earlier detection of breast cancer The new system could be used at home or in doctors’ offices to scan people who are at high risk for breast cancer.
January 29, 2026 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award MIT physicist shares 400,000-euro award for influential work on “magic-angle” graphene.
January 15, 2026 Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers New technique could improve the scalability of trapped-ion quantum computers, an essential step toward making them practically useful.
January 15, 2026 The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero For their discovery of the “magic angle” enabling science to transform and control the behavior of new materials
December 18, 2025 MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025 Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions.
December 11, 2025 New materials could boost the energy efficiency of microelectronics By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a computer chip, this new approach reduces the amount of energy wasted during computation.
December 8, 2025 Health Sciences & Semiconductors: Shaping the Future of Personalized Healthcare Photos November 19, 2025
December 4, 2025 MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions.
November 13, 2025 MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene The findings could open a route to new forms of higher-temperature superconductors.
November 6, 2025 New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery MIT researchers created microscopic wireless electronic devices that travel through blood and implant in target brain regions, where they provide electrical stimulation.
