| Star on the Edge | | | | | | Astronomers have observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at an increasing clip. The source, they say, could be a white dwarf teetering at the black hole’s edge. “This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole,” explains graduate student Megan Masterson. |
| A new look at the economics of AI In a new paper, MIT Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu predicts that artificial intelligence will have a “nontrivial, but modest” effect on GDP in the next decade. |  |
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| Smart carbon dioxide removal yields economic and environmental benefits An MIT study finds a diversified portfolio of carbon dioxide removal options delivers the best return on investment. |  |
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| With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus. |  |
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| Eleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career Awards Faculty members and additional MIT alumni are among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding leadership potential. |  |
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| Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium The consortium will bring researchers and industry together to focus on impact. |  |
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| Great expectations For MIT varsity athletes, excellence in sports and studies go hand in hand. |  |
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| Microwaving your coffee changes it, and other lessons learned (while sipping espresso) in MIT’s coffee class // The Boston Globe “Coffee Matters: Using the Breakerspace to Make the Perfect Cup” is a new course Professor Jeffrey Grossman brewed up to provide students hands-on experience with materials science. |
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| Warmth is weakening the polar vortex. Here’s what it means for extreme cold // The Washington Post Postdoc Mostafa Hamouda discusses the recent cold blast that brought “frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south.” |
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| This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don’t panic — scientists have a plan. // National Geographic Associate Professor Julien de Wit discusses how infrared filters on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can be used to find small asteroids and precisely determine their size. |
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| Woburn startup could give US solar industry a second chance // The Boston Globe Shiv Bhakta MBA ’24, SM ’24 and Richard Swartwout SM ’18, PhD ’21 co-founded Active Surfaces, a solar tech company that has developed “a new kind of solar collector so thin and flexible it can be attached to anything under the sun.” |
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| | | The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative, or MIT HEALS, brings together researchers to find new solutions to challenges in health care. By fostering collaboration in different fields, including life sciences, artificial intelligence, and biological and chemical engineering, MIT HEALS aims to help improve patient care and strengthen connections within the Institute and with Boston-area hospitals and biotech companies. “We’re at a point where we can juxtapose all these different technological approaches to make the whole greater than the sum of any of these technologies alone,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth. |
 | | | | Participation in an engineering team is great professional preparation. Upon graduation these leaders are unafraid of hard problems, and rapidly rise in project management roles. | | —Professor J. Kim Vandiver, director of the MIT Edgerton Center, during the center’s third annual showcase featuring creations from 14 student-led engineering teams |
In a new episode of the Curiosity Unbounded podcast, President Sally Kornbluth talks with MIT Associate Professor Stefanie Mueller about her work developing novel hardware and software systems that advance personal fabrication technologies. The two discuss the future of customizable 3D printing, what it could mean to manufacturing and sustainability, and how to make it accessible to everyone.
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