| Powerful Polymers | | | | | | Polymers are usually the go-to material for thermal insulation: Think of silicone oven mitts, or foam coffee cups. Now mechanical engineers have fabricated polymer films, thinner than plastic wrap, that conduct heat better than many metals. Full story via MIT News → |
| Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2019 Faculty members Edward Boyden, Paula Hammond, and Aviv Regev recognized for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| From science class to the stock exchange “I’m all about finding connections,” says senior Stephon Henry-Rerrie about his path from engineering to the financial sector. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| A comprehensive map of how Alzheimer’s affects the brain Analysis of genes altered by the disease could provide targets for new treatments. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT Sport Taekwondo earns national title The team earned first place in the Championship (black belt) Division for the first time in its 19-year history. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Twenty-year-old, forgotten crypto puzzle solved // WIRED A programmer has solved the cryptographic puzzle that was designed by Institute Professor Ron Rivest and used to ceremonially seal a time capsule of early computer history at the Ray and Maria Stata Center. Full story via WIRED → |
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| A disruptor in vehicle safety or not? // Forbes Research engineer Bryan Reimer examines Tesla founder Elon Musk’s recent comments about the future of driverless vehicles. Full story via Forbes → |
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| Students plan cross-country bike trip to spread science // NBC Boston Members of MIT Spokes, a team of eight MIT students, are on a quest to ride their bicycles across the country this summer, hosting STEM workshops for students along the way. Leah Yost explains that the hands-on workshops provide students with a sense of “what a future in STEM might look like.” Full story via NBC Boston → |
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| This chip could be key to the future of AI // MIT Technology Review MIT researchers have developed a chip that is more efficient than a silicon chip and could help bring artificial intelligence to devices where power is limited. “We need new hardware because Moore’s law has slowed down,” explains Associate Professor Vivienne Sze. Full story via MIT Technology Review → |
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| | | When MIT students graduate, they can choose to receive a free digital version of their diploma in addition to a paper version. MIT became one of the first institutions of higher learning to offer this option to its graduates in 2017. The diplomas are sent as an email attachment that is coded and certifiable using blockcerts, with the blockchain both protecting and verifying the diploma. For students graduating this spring, now is a great time to sign up for your digital diploma! Learn more via the Registrar's Office → |
| | | “In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” —Mark Twain, who was clearly familiar with Cambridge weather! Photo: Tom Berrigan |
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