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Modular blocks could enable labs around the world to cheaply and easily build their own diagnostics.
MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.
MIT grad students explain why some people hear "Yanny" and others hear "Laurel" in the audio clip that's taken the world by storm.
Ken Kamrin’s model of granular material flow could impact how we interact with sand, soil, pills, industrial materials, and more.
State-level policy in the U.S. is responsive to public opinion, study shows.
Exoplanet-seeking satellite developed by MIT swings by moon toward final orbit.
Fast Company reporter Adele Peters writes that MIT researchers have designed a kit that allows scientists to develop diagnostic tests quickly and cheaply. The kit, “uses modular blocks that can be connected in different patterns to replicate the function that would typically be built into a manufactured test for pregnancy, glucose, or an infection or other disease.”
WBUR’s Carey Goldberg recommends a video with neuroscientists at the McGovern Institute “for a quick, light and smart explanation” of the ‘Yanny vs. Laurel’ debate. “The same acoustic information is hitting everyone’s ears,” says graduate student Kevin Sitek. “But the brain is then going to interpret that differently, based on experience.”
The Economist reports on a new method for retirement income developed by Prof. Robert Merton and his colleague at France’s EDHEC Business School.
Biologist honored for his work developing yeast as a model organism for genetic studies.
Graduating students and alumni will conduct research abroad in 2018-19 academic year.
Eight teams pitched business ideas, and three took home cash prizes, at the annual entrepreneurship competition.
In yearlong program, MIT students apply computer science to humanities, arts, and social science research.
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