The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly ...

The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

A research team has developed a novel direct sampling method based on deep generative models. Their method enables efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution across a continuous temperature ...

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) on Aug. 20 at a pivotal time for the race toward reliable fusion energy, which decisions ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the MIT startup racing to build the world’s first working fusion energy device, said on Thursday it had raised $863 million from investors including Google, Nvidia, and ...

When Viraj Dhanda begins his freshman year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he’ll be the university’s first-ever non-speaking student with autism. Diagnosed with autism at age 2, Viraj ...

There has been over $30B in enterprise investments into generative AI '5% of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value' AI systems fail due to their inability to learn and think in ways ...

Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which ...

US companies have invested between $35 billion and $40 billion in generative AI (genAI) projects, but most efforts are stuck in the pilot stage, according to a report from MIT’s NANDA initiative. Only ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

If you asked a thousand physicists, they would all disagree. This statement could apply to any number of topics – whether the universe is infinite, what dark matter is made of, how to make wires ...

A new ranking methodology places Barry Bonds over Babe Ruth as the game’s best player ever. Statisticians, at least, are cheering. By Alexander Nazaryan Every sport has its arguments over which player ...