A nuclear fusion startup led by scientists at MIT to create a revolutionary fusion nuclear reactor that would imitate the way the sun generates energy is getting ready to go on a hiring spree.

Over the course of more than 150 years, countless groundbreaking designs have emerged from Massachusetts Institute of Technology: the first completely solar-powered house, PET scans, and a way to ...

Engineers designed an 'architected' reef that can mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while providing pockets for marine life. The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has received a $100 million gift from the Morningside Foundation, which will be used to create a new center for design. The Massachusetts Institute of ...

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the Morningside Academy for Design is expected to open in the fall. The MIT Morningside Academy for Design, an interdisciplinary center that aims to build on ...

Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache—too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- RNA vaccines against Covid-19 have proven effective at reducing the severity of disease. However, a team of researchers at MIT is working on making them even better. By tweaking the ...

MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts. The robo-ventricle combines real heart tissue with ...

Hearing aids, dental crowns, and limb prosthetics are some of the medical devices that can now be digitally designed and customized for individual patients, thanks to 3-D printing. However, these ...

In Washington and Lee University Mudd Center for Ethics’ 2023-2024 series, how design thinking might address modern ethical dilemmas is explored in “Ethics of Design.” The lecture series by MIT ...