An intensive MIT summer course teaches students to hone their archaeological research skills through hands-on exploration, including making petrographic thin sections, and mineral analysis of ceramics.

An early interest in archaeology led MIT senior Sophia Mittman to explore many facets of materials science, from restoring artwork to developing fruit snacks. Her new passion is finding ways to extract widely used minerals from mining waste.

The 2025 Times Higher Education World University Rankings has ranked MIT first in three subject categories: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, and Social Sciences.

MIT senior Aviva Intveld has been named a 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar. She will pursue graduate studies in earth sciences at Cambridge University in the U.K.

Learn more about a new approach to drug delivery, which could cut the frequency and pain of long-lasting injections through tiny crystals of drugs.

Software used by banks and the space industry may still rely on archaic code. We went in search of the oldest code in use and asked, what happens when it glitches?

Itz'at STEAM Academy uses an innovative pedagogical framework co-created by MIT pK-12, part of Open Learning. The school's launch is the culmination of a three-year project between MIT and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology of Belize.

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Three ancient stars that hail from cannibalized dwarf galaxies are "on the run" at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour in the Milky Way's galactic halo.

MIT undergraduate student Carene Umubyeyi seeks to advance sustainable structural design in her home country of Rwanda and beyond.

MIT's School of Architecture and Planning promoted faculty members Azra Akšamija, devin michelle bunten, Brandon Clifford, Catherine D'Ignazio, Timothy Hyde, Kent Larson, Jeffrey Levine, Elisabeth Reynolds, Larry Sass, Andres Sevtsuk, and Danielle Wood.

Colorful, sharp photos reveal new details about the nearby planetary nebula.

Looking back in time imaginatively is MIT architecture associate professor Brandon Clifford's job: He studies ancient structures and building practices, to generate new ones.

MIT astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way's "halo" — the cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main galactic disk — and they appear to have formed between 12 and 13 billion years ago, when the very first galaxies were taking shape.

Morgane König is a postdoc in theoretical cosmology at MIT and at Dartmouth College and is a 2023 MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. Her research focuses on the study of the universe as a whole, from the era of inflation to the present.

Archaeologists excavating in the Fayum uncovered the remains of a child and 142 dogs in an ancient Egyptian necropolis. The "amazing discovery" has everyone stumped.

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesA new story about a strange burial is making the rounds on archaeology sites and online news...

MIT Professor Wiebke Denecke is the series editor of the new Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature.

Recently I've been working on an issue about supporting the RTD instruction in m68k LLVM backend (well, it turned out to be not directly related to the instruction itself but we will talk about that shortly). The gist of that issue goes like this: the backend bailed out when it tried to lower a certain kind of return statement to RTD, if we're targeting 68020 or later1. The 68020 predicate is actually wrong, RTD is…

By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, MIT PhD student Dominika Ďurovčíková is illuminating an early moment in the universe, when the galaxies could first be observed.