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Where the sidewalk ends

Most cities don’t map their own pedestrian networks. Now, researchers have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that.

February 27, 2023

Augmented reality headset enables users to see hidden objects

The device could help workers locate objects for fulfilling e-commerce orders or identify parts for assembling products.

January 31, 2023

Blue-sky thinking and the next 150-year chair

MIT students studying advanced product design explored sustainable chair manufacturing and showed their work in a community exhibition space in Venice, California.

January 25, 2023

Changing the World Through Art

Erin Genia '19, multimedia artist, embraces traditional Dakota art forms.

January 20, 2023

Learning Beautiful brings MIT’s “mind and hand” ethos to early childhood education

Spun out of a Media Lab project, the startup offers materials that help children explore computer science concepts through hands-on learning.

January 18, 2023

A global lab for teaching and practicing synthetic biology

A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course MAS.S64 (How to Grow (Almost) Anything) leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology.

January 18, 2023

Preparing to be prepared

Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters.

January 4, 2023

MIT CRE Students Take First Place at the 20th Annual National Real Estate Challenge in Austin, Texas

Students credit team’s diverse background to developing a strong winning pitch.

November 2, 2022

New research collaboration aims to tackle global societal challenges through design

Hasso Plattner Institute-MIT Research Program on Designing for Sustainability will focus on sustainable design, innovation, and digital technologies.