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By Lauren Lloyd Researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab have developed a new way of measuring how “green” a city is using Google Street View. The project, called Treepedia, presents an index of cities by measuring their “Green Canopy,” the aboveground portion of trees and...

The new Real Estate innovation Lab will push data analysis, 3D printing, and new construction technologies by Patrick Sisson A new program announced earlier this month at MIT seeks to bring cutting-edge, high-tech analysis to the world of real estate, bridging the disciplines of...

The research team directed by associate professor Neri Oxman documented the health and wellness of the economically vital insects inside a stark white room for three months. By Wanda Lau The Mediated Matter Group Synthetic Apiary, by the Mediated Matter research group at MIT Bees...

Have a little extra time this fall and looking to expand your knowledge of architectural history? Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is offering a 12-course online course titled “A Global History of Architecture” that will cover everything from architecture’s origins...

Researchers are making tiny, flexible, 3D-printed medical devices. Sean Buckley 3D printing has done a lot for medical science. It’s helped us create better prosthetics, manufacture artificial vertebrae and even develop smaller internal cameras. Next, it could help us...

A group of researchers has developed a conceptual traffic system that would enable driverless vehicles to whizz through intersections without colliding, eliminating the need for signals (+ movie). Researchers from MIT, the Swiss Institute of Technology and the Italian National...

MIT wants to make transportation planning more transparent—and a bit more fun. Linda Poon MIT researchers unveiled something earlier this month that will please toddlers and serious urban planners alike. It’s a model of Dudley Square—a neighborhood in the greater Bost...

By Beckett Mufson The world has been “about to be revolutionized” by 3D printing for years now, but aside from rapid prototyping, 3D selfies, and the occasional gimmicky 3D-printed house, we don’t see much of it every day. So why hasn’t this technology...