A town hall for undergraduate students and families outlines plans for the academic year — and the rationale behind key decisions.

Co-chairs of MIT’s Day of Dialogue committee shared their hopes for the live program, which featured keynote speakers as well as workshops on antiracism.

Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it can chip away a razor’s edge, a new study shows.

For the robotics category in a new series celebrating innovation, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed and built by the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group.

PhD student Jessica Varner traces the way synthetic building materials have transformed our environment.

President L. Rafael Reif joins Alan Alda to discuss the need for increased American investment in fundamental research and development.

Professor Sara Seager’s new book, “The Smallest Lights in the Universe,” is a “tear-jerking story of grief, love, loss, and new beginnings that will leave you comforted, hopeful, and optimistic all at the same time.”

A new study by Professor Charles Stewart III “predicts that the outcome of this year’s presidential election — and the problem known as the ‘lost vote,’ in which legitimate ballots go uncounted — could fuel postelection allegations of a rigged election.”

Michael Hecht, director of research at MIT’s Haystack Observatory, delves into the science behind MOXIE, a new experimental device that will convert carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen.