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Siqi Zheng studies the economics of China’s urban explosion.
Galvanized by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disasters, PhD student Xingang Zhao envisions a future with safe, efficient nuclear power.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 poses global challenges to academe.
Incoming first-year students Malik and Miles George double down on their dream of attending MIT.
Alumna-founded LiLu promises to make life as a new mom easier by making breast pumping more comfortable and more productive.
Initiative is building collections highlighting the contributions of female faculty.
Reporting for WBUR, Bruce Gellerman highlights how MIT Solve brings together innovators to tackle some of the world’s pressing challenges. "Putting your money where your social values are and making connections is what Solve is all about," observes Gellerman.
MIT graduate students Ellen Shakespear and Stephanie Lee are opening “an artist workspace and exhibition pop-up,” known as Spaceus, in the historic Roslindale substation, reports Jules Struck for Boston Magazine. The startup, which is partly funded by MIT, “provides a sustainable service to local artists, but also serves as a neighborhood gathering place,” according to Lee.
Prof. John Bush speaks with Popular Science reporter Dyani Sabin about the physics behind bending a soccer ball like a World Cup player. “The physics is rather complicated honestly, but there are simple ways to explain it,” says Bush. “The reason it looks mysterious is because you can’t see what the surrounding fluid, in this case air, is doing.”
Improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments.
Folding and cutting thin metal films could enable microchip-based 3-D optical devices.
Given a video of a musical performance, CSAIL’s deep-learning system can make individual instruments louder or softer.
Machine-learning model could help chemists make molecules with higher potencies, much more quickly.
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