The surprising theory bridging classical physics and quantum mechanics explained at last

A study published in April 2026 in Proceedings of the Royal Society A shows a different possibility. Researchers demonstrated ...
Interesting Engineering

MIT’s robot boat swarm turns waterways into adaptive floating infrastructure

MIT's FloatForm swarm robot boats self-assemble into floating platforms for bridges, emergency response and adaptive ...
Knowridge Science Report

MIT’s tiny robot boats can join together to build floating bridges and platforms

Imagine dozens of small robot boats floating across a river, joining together to create a bridge, a stage, or a temporary ...
North Country Public Radio

A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies

Inspired by diving birds, roboticists built the lightweight machines to move from water to air. The design may one day lead ...
Barron's

Stock Market News From May 26, 2026: S&P 500, Nasdaq Rise as Chip Stocks Rally

Stocks kicked off the week with a broad rally that was fueled by semiconductor companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, hitting a new record. The Nasdaq rose 1.2%. The Dow fell 118 points or 0.2%, while ...
The Washington Post

MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus

MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned Thursday. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 ...
PC Magazine

I Got to Try Samsung's Galaxy S26 Phones: I'm Seriously Impressed With This New Feature

I got an early look at the new Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra from Samsung at its Unpacked event in San Francisco and came away intrigued by the Ultra's new privacy display. I’m PCMag’s Managing ...
WGBH

MIT requires every student to know how to swim. But why?

The legend on MIT’s campus goes that students once had to leap into the Charles River and swim across its dirty water without stopping to graduate. That was never true. But the institution does ...
Forbes

MIT’s Blueprint For A Future-Proof University

American higher education has long been in crisis—with few solutions in sight. The nine-month academic calendar leaves expensive campuses empty for a quarter of the year. Research priorities often ...
MIT Technology Review

Powering up (and saving) the planet

As the Institute’s first VP for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang ’00 is marshaling MIT’s expertise to meet the greatest challenge of our age. Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible ...
PBS

MIT professor's fatal shooting has police still searching for a suspect

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at his home earlier in ...
CBS News

MIT professor's killing remains a mystery as police launch homicide investigation

Authorities were working Wednesday to uncover clues after a prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...