Projects in Texas and North Dakota support clean energy transition as MIT moves closer to 2026 net-zero goal.

MIT entered the race as the No. 1 team in the nation after winning its 17th straight NEWMAC title and its fourth straight NCAA East Regional Championship.

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. Here’s how he’s thinking about AI’s effect on the economy.

MIT chemical engineers have devised a way to capture methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and convert it into polymers.

Opening in February 2025, the building will “give MIT musicians the conservatory-level tools they deserve,” says President Sally Kornbluth.

The MIT sophomore and award-winning memory champion explains what these competitions are all about and why you might want to build a “memory palace.”

Joe Higgins, MIT’s vice president for campus services and stewardship, discusses the Consortium for Climate Solutions, a new effort led by MIT, Harvard University, and Mass General Brigham to band together to enable the development of two large-scale renewable energy projects. “The science is telling us that we need to triple the amount of renewable energy on the power grids by 2030 and it’s not happening fast enough,” says Higgins. “It really came down to: We need new models … and how do we come together to do that with much greater impact, at a much greater speed?”

MIT researchers developed a device, inspired by sea creatures, that can deliver drugs orally by using jets to “eject drugs into the tissue lining the digestive tract.” Associate Professor Giovanni Traverso explains: “We want to make it easier for patients to receive medication. The challenge with drugs like insulin and monoclonal antibodies is that they require an injection. That in and of itself can be a barrier for receiving that medication.”

MIT has been named to the top spot in Times Higher Education’s inaugural Interdisciplinary Science Rankings. Provost Cynthia Barnhart notes that the original design of MIT’s campus was “one large, interconnected building, and the intention was to provide our faculty and our students — all of them — opportunities to bump into one another, to share knowledge and collaborate. Then over the years, other structures, like labs and centers, institutes and, most recently, a college have been created to enable and facilitate interactions across disciplines.”

Inspired by his daily walks, Professor Elfatih Eltahir and his colleagues developed a way to measure how climate change is likely to impact the number of days when it is comfortable to be outdoors. Eltahir notes that during his strolls, he finds “people walking, jogging, cycling, and enjoying the outdoors. That’s what motivated me to start looking at how climate change could really constrain some of those activities.”