Mit Facts

One of the first items ever bought and sold over the internet was marijuana, sold by Stanford students to MIT students in the early 1970s.

MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.

Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.

The Pantheon has stood in Rome for nearly 2,000 years, its concrete dome outlasting every modern equivalent. For centuries, engineers blamed the white chunks in Roman concrete on sloppy mixing. In 2023, MIT found the opposite: those "lime clasts" are the secret. When a crack forms and water seeps in, they react and recrystallize to seal it - the concrete heals its own cracks, 2,000 years before we understood the chemistry.