MIT Student Probing Reality Through Physics, Philosophy and Writing
MIT Senior Michelle Xu’s varied interests all involve a desire to understand the universe. “I was just never particularly picky about which way to figure…
MIT Senior Michelle Xu’s varied interests all involve a desire to understand the universe. “I was just never particularly picky about which way to figure…
An MIT-developed technique could aid in tracking the ocean’s health and productivity. On land, it’s fairly obvious where one ecological region ends and another begins,…
Algorithm Quickly Simulates a Roll of Loaded Dice The fast and efficient generation of random numbers has long been an important challenge. For centuries, games…
How often do vaccine trials hit paydirt? Study: Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected…
MIT system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks. Artificial intelligence has become a focus of certain ethical concerns, but it also…
Method may help quickly identify regions where objects — and missing people — may have converged. The ocean is a messy and turbulent space, where…
“Gold standard” material for generating oxygen from water divulges its molecular mechanisms. A crystalline compound called ruthenium dioxide is widely used in industrial processes, where…
Despite physical isolation because of the COVID pandemic, MIT mathematicians build one-stop portal to online talks around the world. One of the perks of an…
Meet Professor David Rand, a one-time punk rock guitarist who now digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics. What’s it like being a professor at the…
Modeling study shows battery reuse systems could be profitable for both electric vehicle companies and grid-scale solar operations. As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity…
Startup Posh has created chatbots that use “conversational memory” to have more natural exchanges. The comedian Bill Burr has said he refuses to call into…
Life science companies use Paradigm4’s unique database management system to uncover new insights into human health. As technologies like single-cell genomic sequencing, enhanced biomedical imaging,…
Comfortable, form-fitting garments could be used to remotely track patients’ health. MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing…
Classicist Stephanie Frampton traverses disciplines to study how the content and form of writing interacted in the ancient world. At one point in Ovid’s “Tristia,”…
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged. MIT engineers have developed a way to closely track…
In the Maldives, an MIT team is conducting experiments to combat sea-level rise by redirecting natural sand movement. Many island nations, including the Maldives in…
“Operations in practice are very messy, but I think that’s what makes them exciting,” says graduate student Jean Pauphilet. When he began his engineering program…
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu’s new research puts a number on the job costs of automation. In many parts of the U.S., robots have been replacing…