Engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.

Magnets and superconductors go together like oil and water—or so scientists have thought. But a new finding by MIT physicists ...

Global warming will likely hinder our future ability to control ground-level ozone, a harmful air pollutant that is a primary ...

Humans naturally learn by making connections between sight and sound. For instance, we can watch someone playing the cello ...

SeaSplat is an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean's optical effects to generate images of underwater environments reveal an ocean scene's true colors. Researchers paired the ...

US-based start-up NANO Nuclear Energy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Nuclear Science & ...

Samara Oster thought beer was bitter, bloated, and overrated. But during a 2019 trip to Peru, one crisp, quinoa-infused sip ...

The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy.

As more research questions the extent of AI's workplace benefits, the credibility of a widely cited pro-AI paper is called into question.

MIT is distancing itself from a headline-making paper about AI's purported ability to accelerate the speed of science.

MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper on how artificial intelligence affects research ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with L. Rafael Reif, former president of MIT, about his piece in Foreign Affairs, "America's Coming Brain Drain: Trump's War on Universities Could Kill U.S. Innovation." ...