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 ...
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MIT built an AI that can take over your hand and work for you

At MIT's 48-hour Hard Mode 2026 hackathon, a six-person team built Human Operator — a wearable that lets an AI briefly take ...
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 ...
MIT Technology Review

Sharing a love for calculus

Through the MIT4America Calculus Project, students and alumni are tutoring students in underresourced high schools across the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Investigators search for shooter in Brookline killing of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro

QUESTIONS AND VERY FEW ANSWERS. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATORS SAID FROM THE START THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING. BUT TONIGHT, SOURCES ...
USA Today

MIT professor found fatally shot at his home, prosecutors say

Authorities said on Dec. 16 that they launched a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...