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Children used to wander. In 1971, most seven-year-olds in England walked to school on their own. By 1990, fewer than one in ten did. Cities were built for cars, and every trip became one an adult has to supervise. The curiosity is still there, but the room to follow it is gone.Urban Critters gives …
ImpactBench measures AI's impact on human health and wellbeing. MIT Media Lab's framework evaluates 807 metrics across 26 benchmarks.
Since its 2015 debut by an MIT team, expansion microscopy has advanced research on kidneys, seeds, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.
WHx Honorary Chair Susan Blumenthal and MIT's Linda Griffith appear in End of the Cycle, a documentary about endometriosis. Watch now.
A new paper from the Responsive Environments group puts real-time bee identification on a low-power chip inside the BuzzCam field recorder.
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Media Lab spinoff Augmental, which was co-founded by Media Lab alum Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, has launched MouthPad.
Explore embodiment's future with MIT Media Lab's Hugh Herr and Ana Rajčević. How bionic limbs reshape what it means to be human.
WHx Program: Unlocking women's health through transformative technologies
Media Lab alum talks about founding MIT’s new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program.
Chaal is our proposal for the public space of Ghaf Woods, Dubai's first car-free forest community. At its heart is a sunken plaza with water, inspired by the ancient stepwells of Rajasthan, where for centuries communities have gathered in the shade, cooled by water.
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electrohydrodynamic (EHD) fiber pumps directly into the muscle system, EFMs operate silently and untethered, eliminating bulky external equipment such as pumps, compres…
Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz, a cognitive scientist and CEO of DUST, treats sleep hours as a space to design and influence thought.
MIT researchers have shown that they can accurately track muscle movement using tiny magnetic beads implanted in the muscle.
MIT researchers have now designed an implantable drug-delivery device that they hope could help prevent recurrence of glioblastoma.
The Roddenberry Foundation and MIT Media Lab launch a new collaboration rooted in exploration, diversity, and optimistic futures.
By Peter DizikesInnovation, reflection, and celebration will blend at the Boston Symphony Orchestra this week, where MIT composer Tod Machover’s inventive new work “already and not yet” will see its world premiere on Thursday.Machover, one of the world’s most prominent composers, has incorporated m…
Clocky, Makey Makey, Guitar Hero, and Scratch began as Media Lab experiments that asked what ordinary objects could do.
Professor Mitch Resnick has been named to the Forbes Optimism 250 list, which honors the country's greatest living optimists in celebration of America's 250th birthday. Resnick was recognized as an educational pioneer for leading the development of Scratch, contributing to LEGO Mindstorms, and co-f…
Critical Matter Group have projected sounds and video of the ocean alongside crowd-sourced messages into a public square.
Professor received the IDSA Special Achievement Award for three decades of research integrating physical and digital environments.
Shayne Longpre, Ayush Chopra, and Ariel Ekblaw — named to MIT Technology Review's 2026 Innovators Under 35.
In 1979, MIT Media Lab researchers created 'Put That There' — a voice-and-gesture interface that just inspired OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch.
The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being.
Danielle Wood argues the "launch and leave" model of space design is unsustainable; future missions must plan for cleanup.
At the MIT Media Lab, engineer and biophysicist Hugh Herr is at the forefront of bionic limbs.
Human-composed music elicits stronger emotions than AI-generated music, MIT Media Lab finds—even when listeners say they prefer AI
Joseph Paradiso’s sensing research at MIT Media Lab bridges art, medicine, and ecology through wearable sensors and environmental monitoring
Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo of Space Enabled is named one of The Explorers Club 50 for 2026 in the Innovators category.
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