A troubling new study from MIT reveals that a common environmental contaminant, NDMA—found in polluted water, certain medications, and even processed foods—may pose a far greater cancer risk to ...

BOSTON, MA – Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan, in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, has been named the associate dean of the MIT School of Engineering, effective August 1. In her new role ...

Most of the world’s ethylene is produced from fossil fuels, generating large amounts of CO₂ while industries still need carbon-based chemicals and fuels. Researchers used a bismuth-copper alloy ...

For the fourth time, President Donald J. Trump has proposed eliminating the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), an independent body that investigates the causes of significant ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities near Boston say they have no suspect in custody in the death of an MIT professor shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, died at a local hospital on Tuesday ...

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Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

Across the business world, anxiety about AI’s effects on profit margins and job markets has been building for months. This concern reached new heights with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s ...

ChemELLM, a 70-billion-parameter LLM tailored for chemical engineering, outperforms leading LLMs (e.g., Deepseek-R1) on ChemEBench across 101 tasks, trained on ChemEData’s 19 billion pretraining and 1 ...

A new technical paper titled “Machine Intelligence on Wireless Edge Networks” was published by researchers at MIT and Duke University. “Deep neural network (DNN) inference on power-constrained edge ...