February 4, 2026
Tomás Palacios appointed Director of ISN
Office of the Vice President for Research As director, Tomás will lead ISN’s research mission and build communities within MIT and with external partners.
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January 29, 2026
MIT Engineers Design Structures that Compute with Heat
Adam Zewe | MIT News By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing.
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January 23, 2026
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
MIT physicist shares award for influential work on “magic-angle” graphene. Materials Research Laboratory
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January 15, 2026
Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers
Adam Zewe | MIT News New technique could improve the scalability of trapped-ion quantum computers, an essential step toward making them practically useful.
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December 15, 2025
What Makes a Good Proton Conductor?
Zach Winn | MIT News MIT researchers found a way to predict how efficiently materials can transport protons in clean energy devices and other advanced technologies.
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December 11, 2025
Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94 to deliver MIT’s 2026 Commencement address
Kathy Wren | MIT News An electrical engineer by training, Su is the chair and CEO of the semiconductor company AMD.
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December 11, 2025
New Materials Could Boost the Energy Efficiency of Microelectronics
Adam Zewe | MIT News By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a computer chip, this new approach reduces the amount of energy wasted…
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November 6, 2025
MIT Physicists Observe Key Evidence of Unconventional Superconductivity in Magic-angle Graphene
The findings could open a route to new forms of higher-temperature superconductors. Jennifer Chu | MIT News
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October 24, 2025
The Brain Power Behind Sustainable AI
PhD student Miranda Schwacke explores how computing inspired by the human brain can fuel energy-efficient artificial intelligence. Jason Sparapani | Department of Materials…
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October 22, 2025
A “seating chart” for Atoms Helps Locate Their Positions in Materials
Jennifer Chu | MIT News The DIGIT imaging tool could enable the design of quantum devices and shed light on atomic-scale processes in cells and tissues.
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