As soon as August, a giant silver bullet will cut its way through the dry air of the southwestern US and cross the Pacific to ...

Yes, forces both within and beyond our control will always break things. People will invariably make mistakes, or act out of ...

The MIT Sports Lab helped develop a tool referees used to make clutch calls at the last World Cup, but their ongoing work ...

By moving their own hand and fingers, users wearing a remote-control wristband can manipulate objects in a virtual ...

In the 1890s, MIT alumnae weren’t expected to have meaningful careers. The women of the Class of 1894 proved that assumption ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the ...

Describing the late Dick Gorman, those close to him recall his winning capacity for friendship. “He went out of his way to be ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union announced it had launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite.

When work took David Fung ’85 to Asia in the early 2000s, he found it hard to keep in touch regularly with his MIT friends in ...

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

Today, as the CEO and cofounder of OOFSports, Lu is helping swimmers and other athletes become more competitive—including the ...