MIT researchers built a 3D printer that can produce a fully functioning electric linear motor in about three hours for 50 cents in materials. Linear motors are typically used in optical systems and ...

What just happened? 3D printing has become very good at making shapes, but making complex machines with moving parts is where most printers tap out. MIT researchers, however, have developed a ...

“Start in a low-level position and work your way upward.” Does that even apply anymore? In fact, the “career ladder” doesn’t work for everyone anymore. Right now, as technology disrupts the work rules ...

“Mathematics is the art of reducing any problem to linear algebra.” This is a quote often attributed to William Stein, a former mathematics professor at the University of Washington, now the lead ...

There is no evidence that Nuno F.G. Loureiro, an M.I.T.-affiliated scientist who was fatally shot Monday at his home in Brookline, Mass., was killed in an antisemitic attack. It’s not even clear that ...

Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, was shot multiple times at his home, and no details about a suspect or motive have been released The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is grieving after the “shocking” ...

We’ll keep following these developments, but this just wasn’t their year. Here’s why. If you’re a longtime reader, you probably know that our newsroom selects 10 breakthroughs every year that we think ...

The trillion-dollar question: Is AI technology actually going to disrupt the job market in the US and elsewhere in the world? While the jury is still out, new speculative exercises are trying to ...

Cofounders Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Sualeh Asif and Michael Truell (left to right) met at MIT and decided to build Cursor, an AI coding tool that's now valued at $29.3 billion. The cofounders are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Presidential Lecture Series event next week, featuring a conversation between Wabash CEO Brent Yeagy and Purdue President Mung Chiang, is being moved to the Convergence ...

Earlier this month, the White House announced a “compact” under which universities would receive funding preferences in exchange for committing to basic educational goals. The compact represents the ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...