| Making Neurons | | | | | | MIT engineers have devised a simplified process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron for cell therapy. The highly efficient method could make it easier to develop treatments for spinal cord injuries or diseases that impair mobility, like ALS. |
| AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone. |  |
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| New platform lets anyone rapidly prototype large, sturdy interactive structures The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics. |  |
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| When did human language emerge? A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that. |  |
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| Researchers establish new basis for quantum sensing and communication A new theoretical approach for generating quantum states could lead to improved accuracy and reliability of information and decision systems. |  |
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| David Schmittlein, dean who brought MIT Sloan into its own, dies at 69 In his 17 years as dean, Schmittlein led the transformation of MIT Sloan into a management school uniquely positioned for the future and “the best version of its distinctive self.” |  |
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| Women’s indoor track and field wins first NCAA Division III National Championship With 49 points, MIT bests 61 other teams; senior Alexis Boykin wins shot put and weight throw national titles. |  |
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| MIT selected as most desirable school, new survey says // Today MIT has secured the top spot in The Princeton Review’s annual survey of the most desirable colleges in the country. |
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| Opinion: Four AI robots your aging parents want in their homes // Fast Company MIT graduate student Sheng-Hung Lee and Devin Liddell of Teague highlight four types of AI technologies that could aid senior citizens in their homes. |
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| What happens to the bodies of NASA astronauts returning to Earth? // NewsNation Professor Dava Newman, director of the MIT Media Lab and former NASA deputy director, explores how long-duration stays in space can affect the human body and how astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will reacclimate to Earth’s gravity. |
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| MIT’s new artificial muscles for soft robots mimic real tissues for greater agility // Interesting Engineering MIT researchers have developed a new method to grow artificial muscles that could be used in soft robots and can move in multiple directions. |
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| 44 | | All-time number of MIT alumni who have been selected by NASA to travel in space. One of them, Nick Hague SM ’00, returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Tuesday night, along with Needham, Massachusetts, native Suni Williams; Butch Wilmore; and Aleksandr Gorbunov. |
| | | Assistant Professor Andreea Bobu, leader of the Collaborative Learning Autonomy Research (CLEAR) Lab, works on autonomous agents that learn to do tasks for, with, and around people. Researchers at CLEAR Lab are developing personalized robots that can assist with human-centric tasks, such as picking up and placing an item down, while providing human feedback that allows them to think and act independently. Bobu shares that her favorite thing about MIT is the people, specifically the “intellectual curiosity, the drive, the quirkiness, the camaraderie that everyone around experiences in the pursuit of science.” |
| Verse | | | What charms does Nature at the spring put on,
When hedges unperceived get stain’d in green;
When even moss, that gathers on the stone,
Crown’d with its little knobs of flowers is seen;
And every road and lane, through field and glen,
Triumphant boasts a garden of its own.
In spite of nipping sheep, and hungry cow,
The little daisy finds a place to blow:
And where old Winter leaves her splashy slough,
The lady-smocks will not disdain to grow;
And dandelions like to suns will bloom,
Aside some bank or hillock creeping low;--
Though each too often meets a hasty doom
From trampling clowns, who heed not where they go.
—“Spring.” by John Clare |
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