Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gra...

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&...

By Rachel Bellisle

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minut...

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation.&nb...

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...

Freedom Radio (in development), is a series of vocal portraits of freedom around the world. Currently, it features over 100 samples of pe...

A Counting is a series of vocal and gestural portraits of the linguistic and ethnic diversity in US cities. Currently, it features counts...

Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific ta...

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...

Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inher...

Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and s...

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizen...

Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread ...

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban...

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology tha...

Tangible Swarm is a tool that displays relevant information about a robotics system (e.g., multi-robot, swarm, etc.) in real time wh...

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in...

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket prop...

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self ...

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food ...

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surv...

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Ante...

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propell...

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar ...

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activitie...

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to exp...

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial...

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...

We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research grou...

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At t...

All over Africa, experts use satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for applications such as monitoring crop health or assessing the risk ...

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...

Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data...

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, ra...

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade sli...

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...

The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...

The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...

Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a sch...

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...