| Gut Check | | | | | | “For a long time, we thought the brain is a tyrant that sends output into the organs and controls everything. But now we know there’s a lot of feedback back into the brain,” Professor Polina Anikeeva says. Her team has uncovered significant crosstalk between the brain and GI tract. Full story via MIT News → |
| Atlas of human brain blood vessels highlights changes in Alzheimer’s disease MIT researchers characterize gene expression patterns for 22,500 brain vascular cells across 428 donors, revealing insights for Alzheimer’s onset and potential treatments. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| A clean alternative to one of the world’s most common ingredients C16 Biosciences, founded by MIT alumni, has developed a microbial oil to replace palm oil, whose production reaps environmental devastation. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Charlie Farquhar: Forger of chemical and social bonds While developing targeted drug-delivery methods, the PhD student advocates for inclusion, belonging, and collaboration. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Professor Emeritus Roman Jackiw, “giant of theoretical physics,” dies at 83 Over more than 50 years at MIT, he made fundamental contributions to quantum field theory and discovered topological and geometric phenomena. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Why the “Mother of Dragons” at SpaceX left her job building rockets to work on nuclear fusion // CNBC CNBC’s Catherine Clifford discusses the journey that led Darby Dunn ’08 from building rockets for SpaceX to working on making fusion energy a reality at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). Full story via CNBC→ |
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| MIT unveils a megawatt motor for electric aircraft // IEEE Spectrum MIT researchers developed a compact, lightweight design for a 1-megawatt electrical motor that could open the door to electrifying much larger aircraft. Full story via IEEE Spectrum→ |
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| With new toilet seat, BU and MIT engineers want to nip bathroom mishaps in the bud // The Boston Globe Cleana, a startup launched by engineers from MIT and Boston University, is developing “a new kind of toilet seat that raises or lowers itself to avoid unwelcome splashes, or to prevent objects from falling accidentally into the bowl.” Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| Opinion: Will Boston spiral into the “urban doom loop”? Not if we act. // The Boston Globe Professor of the practice Carlo Ratti emphasizes that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic “urban areas need to fundamentally reweave their fabric to thrive in the era of flexible work: That means ending homogeneous zoning, promoting mixed-use developments, converting some offices into housing, and giving more space to arts and culture.” Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| | | Yesterday was International Women in Engineering Day. To mark the occasion, MIT Open Learning has added new content to a recent blog post highlighting teaching and learning resources by and about MIT women in engineering. From course materials on MIT OpenCourseWare to podcasts, videos, and additional blog posts, the resources will allow you to tap into the wisdom of some of MIT’s remarkable women in STEM. Learn more→ |
On a new episode of the CSAIL Alliances Podcast, host Kara Miller speaks with MIT Associate Professor Vivienne Sze on the rising energy costs of artificial intelligence computing, which has both environmental and financial dimensions. They also discuss recent breakthrough work on how to let AI proliferate while still addressing those costs.
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