| Wearable Cancer Detector | | | | | | A wearable ultrasound scanner, incorporated into a bra, could allow more regular monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer. “With more frequent screening, our goal is to increase the survival rate to up to 98 percent,” says Associate Professor Canan Dagdeviren. |
| New method simplifies the construction process for complex materials With a new, user-friendly interface, researchers can quickly design many cellular metamaterial structures that have unique mechanical properties. |  |
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| Q&A: A high-tech take on Wagner’s “Parsifal” opera Director and MIT Professor Jay Scheib’s production, at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, features an apocalyptic theme and augmented reality headsets for the audience. |  |
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| How forests can cut carbon, restore ecosystems, and create jobs A new analysis describes steps planners can take to make forests more effective “natural climate solutions.” |  |
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| MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. |  |
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| Not your grandparents’ “Monopoly” MIT board game designers take on social and cultural topics, with a playful twist. |  |
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| The economic case for slowing down AI // Quartz Professor Daron Acemoglu and graduate student Todd Lensman have created “the first economic model of how to regulate transformative technologies” like artificial intelligence. |
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| Who rings the bells inside the Old North Church? // Boston.com The MIT Guild of Bellringers, a dedicated volunteer group, “practice every weekend to master the complex and historic practice known as change ringing.” |
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| How to make health care better through dollars and sense // Marketplace Professor Amy Finkelstein discusses her new book “We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care,” which outlines a way to rethink health care in the U.S. |
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| Opinion: America’s workers deserve their fair share of economic gains // The Hill Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan writes about the need for a new social contract that reflects the expectations of today’s workforce, including sizable wage increases due to inflation and a voice in the use of AI and generative technology. |
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| | | Can you explain your research to a kindergartener? In a feature for Wired, Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Research Administration Anne White explains the nature of fusion energy in five levels of increasing difficulty — to a child, a teen, a college student, a graduate student, and an expert. “Fusion is so exciting because it is extraordinarily beautiful physics, which underpins some of the most basic processes in our universe,” says White, who is also a professor of nuclear science and engineering. “Nuclear processes have a tremendously valuable application for humankind, a virtually limitless, clean, safe, carbon-free form of energy.” |
In a new episode of the Curiosity Unbounded podcast, host and MIT President Sally Kornbluth speaks with Greg Fournier, an associate professor of geobiology at MIT. Fournier’s work focuses on the microbial world, and by studying the evolution of microbes, he and his team are furthering our understanding of the history of life on Earth. In the episode, he discusses fine-tuning our understanding of evolution; lab life and how research surprises often lead to new discoveries; and advice for those just beginning a career in science.
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 | | | | What draws me to music is being able to make an impact on the people who listen. | | —Tristan Shin ’23, trumpet player and one of four recent winners of the Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award for exceptional artistic contributions to the MIT community |
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