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With fur, brushes, and bristles, Media Lab’s technique opens new frontier in 3-D printing.
Broad Institute/MIT scientist among three honored for CRISPR contributions.
Grantees will spend the 2016-2017 academic year conducting research abroad.
PhD student Elizabeth Setren brings data to bear on questions about local education policy.
No injuries reported; residents will stay in Next House temporarily.
In celebration of the White House's Week of Making, a look at the vibrant makerspace ecosystem around the Institute.
In an article for The Boston Globe, Steve Annear writes that MIT is rolling out several new benefits for faculty and staff commuting to campus, including free, unlimited subway and local bus usage. “By providing employees with the pass, the school hopes to ease the demand for parking near campus and help reduce carbon emissions,” Annear writes.
Prof. David Kaiser speaks with Jeremy Hobson of Here & Now about the history of science. Kaiser notes there are ebbs and flows in the pace of scientific discovery “tied to priority cycles in various nations or whole parts of the world…people’s imaginations can get swept up in whether they can even imagine building a tool to test something.”
Prof. Daniel Hastings, director of SMART, writes for Today that in order to tackle complex social issues, policymakers must have an understanding of science. “Many of the issues faced by Singapore and other societies today are social-technical in nature. Having policymakers equipped with a knowledge in science and technology will be essential to meeting Singapore’s ambitions.”
Study: Group dynamics of teamwork and internships deter many women in the profession.
Crowd-sourced data yields system that determines where mobile-device users are looking.
New chip design makes parallel programs run many times faster and requires one-tenth the code.
New research may explain why sea temperatures around Antarctica haven’t risen as much as surface temperatures around the globe.
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