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...

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

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

A Counting is a series of vocal and gestural portraits of US cities' linguistic and ethnic diversity. It features calls from over 50...

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

Freedom Radio (in development) is a series of vocal portraits and publications on global freedom that feature people answering and asking...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

A proof of concept demonstration for a voxel-based reconfigurable space structure based on electromagnetically actuated picosatellites. I...

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 ...

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

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 Rachel BellisleThe Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronauts that has ...

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...

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.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

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...

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

This project steps beyond data visualizations to create data experiences. It aims to engage not only the analytic mind, but also the arti...

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...

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...

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...

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

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 ...

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...