| Improved Colonoscopy | | | | | | Often during colonoscopies, doctors remove precancerous polyps. To avoid tearing the colon, an injected saline solution can lift polyps for easier removal. A new approach developed at MIT may be even better: an injected liquid that turns into a gel. Full story via MIT News → |
| Mathematical insights through collaboration and perseverance “Patience is important for our subject,” says math professor Wei Zhang. “You’re always making infinitesimal progress.” Full story via MIT News → | |
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| TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including a temperate “sub-Neptune” A planetary system orbiting an unusually quiet star is ideal for future habitability searches. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT postdocs and alumni honored in MIT Technology Review Top Innovators Under 35 MIT affiliates are noted for accomplishments that are poised to have a dramatic impact on the world. Full story via Slice of MIT → |
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| Model predicts cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s, up to two years out Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Removing carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust MIT researchers are developing a battery that could both capture carbon dioxide in power plant exhaust and convert it to a solid that’s ready for safe disposal. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Commentary: Why the Fed lowering interest rates would be a mistake // Fortune “When the U.S. economy falls into the next recession, as it inevitably must, the Federal Reserve needs to respond by sharply lowering interest rates,” argues Senior Lecturer Robert Pozen. “However, U.S. interest rates are now so low that the Fed has little dry powder in its arsenal.” Full story via Fortune → |
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| Visiting MIT’s Engineering Design Workshop // WGBH High school students participating in the MIT Edgerton Center’s summer Engineering Design Workshop discuss their experiences on campus so far. Full story via WGBH On Campus → |
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| Toward new musics: What the future holds for sound creativity // NPR Professor Tod Machover and graduate student Charles Holbrow explore how streaming services and machine learning could impact the future of music. Full story NPR → |
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| Commentary: The world is complex. Measuring charity has to be, too // Wired Media Lab Director Joi Ito writes about identifying a better way to measure the impact of charitable giving. Full story via Wired → |
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| | | MIT’s metalworking facilities, including a forge and foundry, date back to the Institute’s early years. This 1896 image shows students getting their metal on at MIT’s original campus in Boston; at the time, nearly half of all students studied geology and mining, which included metallurgy. Today, metallurgy is alive and well at the Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laboratory, where students can take semester-long classes, and community members can participate in shorter workshops during Independent Activities Period. Materials from 3.A04 (Modern Blacksmithing and Physical Metallurgy) are also available on MIT OpenCourseWare. Learn more about the Metals Lab → |
| | | | | We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together. | | —Hashim Sarkis, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, on his vision as curator of the 2020 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition Learn more via the Venice Biennale → |
As we relish the final stretch of summer, a podcast from MIT Medical provides guidance on how to stay healthy while traveling abroad — and what to do if you get sick or injured during your travels. Part of the Conversations with MIT Medical podcast series, the episode features advice from Howard Heller, an MIT Medical physician specializing in infectious disease.
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