In the 1950s, researchers predicted that the world would have nuclear fusion–which uses hydrogen atoms, an incredibly abundant fuel, to provide clean, almost limitless power, while avoiding the ...

Typically when we talk about autonomous taxis, we are talking about vehicles like cars, SUVs, and buses that can cruise the highways without drivers behind the wheel. MIT has been working on an ...

Ford is working with MIT on a research project that will deploy a new fleet of on-demand electric shuttles that can ferry students from class-to-class both on campus and on city roads at MIT’s ...

As it stands, you can spice up your selfies with Instagram filters and other edits before beaming to the interwebs. But what about making a truly compelling smartphone self-portrait? Well, a team of ...

"Trash Track" project to monitor the journey of trash. MIT hopes to reveal the costs of trash disposal and make people aware of impact of garbage on the environment. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Walter Baade used the 48-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in southern California to capture humankind's first image of asteroid 1566 Icarus on 26 June 1949. Icarus, it was soon found, ...

Two students at MIT have raised enough money to hand out $100 in bitcoin to every undergrad at the university — though they admit they don't know what will happen next. The MIT Bitcoin Project is ...

'Project Gaydar' started as a project for an MIT ethics and law class to find out how much information could be inferred by examining a person's network of friends. A software algorithm applied ...

In theory, it's cool: Take seven artists, team them up with students and professors from MIT's famed Media Lab, and have them collaborate on a series of portraits that reflect how differently a person ...