MIT News Newsletter

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 9, 2017
MIT News: top stories
A weekly digest of the Institute’s research and innovation

Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication

System could pore through millions of research papers to extract “recipes” for producing materials.

A new way to mix oil and water

Condensation-based method developed at MIT could create stable nanoscale emulsions.

Researchers develop flexible, stretchable photonic devices

Light-based devices could be used as biomedical sensors or as flexible connectors for electronics.

Jesse Thaler: Seeking the fundamental nature of matter

Theorist explores particle physics at the boundary of “messy and elegant.”

Strong current of energy runs through MIT

Research, education, and student activities help create a robust community focused on fueling the world's future.

3 Questions: Joseph Coughlin on innovation for an aging population

New book, “The Longevity Economy,” calls for rethinking our ideas about what the elderly can do.

In the Media

MIT researchers have developed a new sensor that can be applied to the leaf of a plant and could be used to help predict droughts, reports Alyssa Meyers for The Boston Globe. Prof. Michael Strano explains that in the future, “One of the most useful ways of using this sensor is to design more stress-tolerant crops.”

New Scientist reporter Abigail Beale writes that MIT researchers have been able to trick an AI system into thinking an image of a turtle is a rifle. Beale writes that the results, “raise concerns about the accuracy of face recognition systems and the safety of driverless cars, for example.”

CNN reporter Peter Valdes-Dapena writes that MIT researchers are working with Lamborghini to develop a battery-free, electric supercar. Valdes-Dapena explains that instead of running on batteries, the body of the car, which would be made from exotic carbon nanotubes, would be used as a supercapacitor.