Talya Klinger and Steven Truong will begin graduate studies in the UK next fall.

Cake, a startup co-founded by Suelin Chen ’03 SM ’07 PhD ’10, helps people share their end-of-life wishes with loved ones.

Renovated spaces will be more flexible and welcoming, maximizing views and natural light.

An MIT study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves.

MIT historian Sana Aiyar sheds new light on the complexities of independence movements and global migration.

“To boost economic growth, we should strengthen scientific fields where breakthroughs are imminent and where any other country — China in particular — threatens to forge ahead,” write professors Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson.

MIT professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo as well as Michael Kremer of Harvard University will donate their $916,000 in prize money to the Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics.

Research affiliate Judah Cohen discusses what distinguishes a Nor’easter, an extratropical cyclone powered by “strong differences in temperature,” from other storms.

“The method enables us to increase the distance in the universe at which we can detect gravitational waves,” says principal research scientist Lisa Barsotti of a new instrument developed by MIT researchers that has improved LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves.