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Graduate student Maya Nasr spoke to the New York Times about how policy changes limiting foreign worker visas will impact international students like her.

Jacqueline Thomas PhD ’20 recounts her final academic year at MIT, from once-in-a-lifetime field work to a virtual thesis defense

Teaching assistants in Robotics: Science and Systems pulled out all the stops to help engineering students race across the finish line this spring.

Assistant Professor Richard Linares envisions a constellation of "statites" that communicate and work together, only activating the statite in the optimum position to fly by or rendezvous with an interstellar object successfully. Other statites in the constellation can continue to wait for the next ISO to appear. His proposal was selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program.

A message from MIT astronauts Cady Coleman ’83, Mike Fincke ’89, and Greg Chamitoff PhD ’92: Accept the mission and find your motivators

By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks, such as setting a table.

MIT engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid.

Study tracks pollution from state to state in the 48 contiguous United States.

“Father of GPS” honored with three colleagues for creating the first truly global, satellite-based positioning system.

Carbon nanotube film produces aerospace-grade composites with no need for huge ovens or autoclaves.