An MIT student group draws beautiful daily works of art on the chalk wall in Building 32.

Design combines a common diaper material with RFID technology.

Professor Chenyang Xu applies the techniques of abstract algebra to study concrete but complex geometric objects.

A new study tracks pollution from state to state in the 48 contiguous United States.

Experienced higher-education leader will develop and implement diversity and inclusion strategies for the Institute.

Postdoc Chenguang Zhang crunched the numbers to determine the ideal way to fold a notebook page in order to “bookmark” it.

Assistant Professor Evelina Fedorenko’s lab is investigating how the polyglot brain works, in particular why some people can become proficient at multiple languages.

When the late Professor Edward Lorenz “first invoked a butterfly’s wings, it wasn’t to say that we can’t predict the weather in New York because we can’t account for all the butterflies in China. On the contrary, Lorenz was actually saying that even if we could account for every skipper and swallowtail along the Yellow Sea, it wouldn’t do much to improve weather forecasts.”

Increased handwashing at airports could significantly curb the spread of infectious diseases, according to a study by MIT researchers.