More than 60,000 tons of plastic makes the journey down the Amazon River to the Atlantic Ocean every year. And that doesn't ...

The symposium focused on the ways in which engineering research can be brought to bear in better understanding the nervous ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries ...

Converting one type of cell to another - for example, a skin cell to a neuron - can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...

Engineering and Technology highlights MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley as the top US institutions. MIT leads with a 96.2 ...

Red Pitaya, which does software-defined instrumentation, unveiled next-generation hardware akin to the "Raspberry Pi of measurement" gear.

Aerospace engineers found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate there.

MIT and NVIDIA's framework lets users correct robots in real time without retraining, improving accuracy by 21% using intuitive feedback.

Indian American mechanical engineering professor will lead MIT’s only program specifically focused on water and food for ...

How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab­—and made a lasting mark on programming.