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Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting.
Results may help explain how humans do the same thing.
Collaboration with pharmaceutical giant will bring smart jet-injection device to market.
Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language.
MIT-designed tool lets people test realistic changes to local transit networks.
Study: State-level disclosure laws affect patients’ eagerness to have their DNA tested.
Newsweek reporter Sydney Pereira writes that MIT researchers have engineered a plant that can glow in the dark by embedding nanoparticles into the plant’s leaves. “Further optimization could one day lead to plants that could illuminate entire work spaces or sprays that can be coated onto trees to transform them into streetlights,” Pereira explains.
Prof. Emeritus Rainer Weiss has been named to The Boston Globe’s list of the 2017 Bostonians of the Year for his work starting a new revolution in astronomy. Globe reporter Eric Moskowitz notes that Weiss, “shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for conceiving and shepherding a set of observatories that allowed scientists to prove Einstein’s assertion about gravitational waves.”
MIT researchers have developed a new technique to 3-D print genetically engineered bacteria into a variety of shapes and forms, reports Karen Hao for Quartz. The technique could eventually be used to develop such devices as, “an ingestible living robot that secretes the correct drug when it detects a tumor.”
Writing for Scientific American, Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland explains how new digital technologies are making it possible to build more efficient financial networks and decentralize the control of money. “That we can now create monetary systems that are truly understandable means we can potentially build the tools for minimizing risk, avoiding crashes, and maintaining individual freedom from intrusive governments and overly powerful corporations.”
Announcement delivers on a key commitment by the Institute to the Cambridge community.
Six potentially paradigm-shifting research projects will make strides with funding from Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
She succeeds Anantha Chandrakasan, who was named dean of engineering, as leader of MIT’s largest academic department.
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