For Project Sid, the company populated a Minecraft world with 1,000 autonomous AI agents to see what they would do if left to their own devices. The result is astonishing.

Programs that get kids excited about STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — top the list over any drugs, ...

What is cat scratch disease? Cat scratches and bites can cause cat scratch disease, a bacterial infection carried in cat saliva. Research suggests a cat may get these bacteria from fleas or their ...

In the Maldives, a 900-kilometer-long chain of about 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Self-Assembly Lab and Maldivian organization Invena are ...

MIT and several of its institutions were listed in the map, because it ostensibly "supports and profits from war and imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, privatization, and gentrification." A ...

underlining that the handouts didn’t come from MIT. “While I have repeatedly defended freedom of expression, I must tell you that I found some of the websites cited on the flyers deeply ...

The Banana Lounge offers beanbag chairs, camaraderie, and a free, potassium-rich snack to students and visitors alike. Attending lectures and movies in 26-100 has been an integral part of the MIT ...

MIT's Black student enrollment has dropped significantly after the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling, while the university’s white and Asian American student populations have increased.

We are increasingly learning and communicating by means of the moving image. It will shift our culture in untold ways. The other day I idly opened TikTok to find a video of a young woman ...

About 5% of MIT’s incoming class of 2028 is Black, a significant drop from its 13% average in recent years. Latino students make up 11% of the class of 2028, compared to a 15% average in recent ...

MIT is the first highly selective institution to release such data, which covers the first class admitted to college since the Supreme Court ruled in June 2023 that affirmative action in admissions is ...