This aspect of syntax helps us do much more than just build sentences, linguist Shigeru Miyagawa contends.

Their model’s predictions should help researchers improve ocean climate simulations and hone the design of offshore structures.

Following nine years leading MIT’s work on digital learning, the longtime faculty member will focus on teaching, research, writing, and entrepreneurship.

The findings will help scientists trace a black hole’s evolution as it feeds on stellar material.

Saathi, co-founded by Kristin Kagetsu ’12, is pursuing sustainable and responsible manufacturing with its biodegradable, compostable sanitary pads.

A portable, solar-powered desalination device developed by MIT researchers can create potable drinking water with the push of a button.

Researchers from MIT and the University of Waterloo have developed a new approach aimed at significantly increasing the probability of observing the Unruh effect.

“If we are going to get serious about solving world challenges, we all need to adopt more open and participatory systems to find, fund, and support innovators, wherever they may be,” writes Alex Amouyel, executive director of MIT Solve.

Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury discusses new work examining the lack of socioeconomic diversity in economics. “If we have a discipline [where] two-thirds of the U.S.-born economics profession is made up of people whose parents have graduate degrees, you know, that’s a very selected group that is maybe missing really important perspectives.”