Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.

MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain.

PhD student Lavender Tessmer applies computation to create textiles that behave in novel ways.

The low-cost hardware outperforms state-of-the-art versions and could someday enable an affordable, in-home device for health monitoring.

The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.

Professor Rafael Jaramillo relishes the challenge of developing new, environmentally beneficial semiconductor materials.

Professor Gregory Rutledge explores the science behind nanofibers and whether it’s possible to create ultrathin and ultrastrong nanofibers that are invisible to the human eye, as depicted in the science fiction series “3 Body Problem.”

MIT researchers have developed a new tool to quantify how climate change will impact the number of “outdoor days” where people can comfortably spend time outside in specific locations around the world.

Graduate student Dhruv Gaur discusses his viral message expressing support for Alex Trebek when he competed on “Jeopardy!” in 2019, and his experience being invited back for the show’s first invitational tournament.

Astronomers have found periodic eruptions from a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy about 800 million light-years from Earth could be caused by a “second, smaller black hole slamming into a disk of gas and dust, or ‘accretion disk,’ surrounding the supermassive black hole, causing it to repeatedly ‘hiccup’ out matter.”