In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long ...

A team of MIT scientists has proposed an outlandish idea: that the sulfur-rich clouds of Venus could be teeming with microbial life. In theory, microbes could make use of Venus’ sulfur clouds by ...

MIT HEALS—the Institute’s new health and life sciences collaborative—is helping researchers solve urgent problems in fields from cancer to climate change. If you were near Kresge Auditorium early on ...

For all of its success as a center of commerce, Kendall Square in Cambridge remains something of an urban desert, with unused spaces and buildings isolated by wide streets, exaggerating the sense of ...