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Study shows children remain adept learners until the age of 17 or 18.
System detects direct signals of neural activity; could reveal patterns underlying behavior.
MIT economist’s historical study details how railroads helped India trade and grow.
Chemistry professor builds on nature to design new drugs and engineer better ways to deliver them.
MIT Community Dialogue series is underway as multi-year research continues.
MIT analysis shows when and where advanced photovoltaics would be economic to install.
Prof. Parag Pathak, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, speaks to The Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Hackman about his research on school choice. “What I sometimes find frustrating in conversations about student achievement is they often get sidetracked from the issue of school quality,” Pathak says. “Our job as researchers is exploring the nuances and subtleties.”
New research suggests “children are highly skilled at learning the grammar of a new language up until the age of 17 or 18, much longer than previously thought,” reports Kashmira Gander in Newsweek. “We may need to go back to the drawing board in trying to explain why adults have trouble learning language,” Joshua Hartshorne, who co-wrote the study as a postdoc at MIT, tells Gander.
In an opinion piece for The Boston Globe, Alex Amouyel, executive director of MIT Solve, explains how the initiative is ‘crowdsolving’ thorny global problems through open innovation. “We need to source ideas from innovators all around the world to find the next breakthroughs,” argues Amouyel. “We know talent and ingenuity exist everywhere.”
May 16-18 event, hosted by MIT Solve, will include remarks from Eric Schmidt, Ursula Burns, Yo-Yo Ma, and Luis Alberto Moreno, among other luminaries.
Finkelstein, Kardar, Wen, and Zhang honored for research achievements.
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering.
Grad student Jonny Sun jokes on late-night TV about his alien persona and the unique challenges of working on a PhD while creating a graphic novel.
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