July 9, 2022
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Understanding Crypto
 
Neha Narula, director of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks. “We want to understand the implications of different technology designs,” she says, because ready or not, “money is really changing.”
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery
Christoph Paus, the MIT scientist who co-led the effort to detect the particle, looks ahead to the next 10 years in particle physics.
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Startup lets doctors classify skin conditions with the snap of a picture
Piction Health, founded by Susan Conover SM ’15, uses machine learning to help physicians identify and manage skin disease.
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How the Russia-Ukraine war is upending global supply chains
Experts detail how ripple effects are impeding the flow of goods, creating catastrophic food shortages, and fueling dramatic cost increases and product shortages.
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Physicists see electron whirlpools for the first time
Long predicted but never observed, this fluid-like electron behavior could be leveraged for low-power next-generation electronics.
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Meet nine new faculty members in the MIT Sloan School of Management
New faculty are experts in finance, behavioral economics, system dynamics, and information technology.
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In the Media
Meet the siblings making hydropower that actually protects rivers and fish // TIME
Siblings Gia Schneider ’99 and Abe Schneider SM ’03 co-founded Natel, a company dedicated to developing sustainable, climate-resilient hydropower.
3-D printing grows beyond its novelty roots // The New York Times
VulcanForms, an MIT startup, has developed a 3-D printer that can “generate 100 times the laser energy of most 3-D printers, and can produce parts many times faster.” Martin Feldmann MEng ’14, VulcanForms co-founder, president, and CEO, notes that “additive manufacturing lets us rethink how we build things. That’s where we are now, and that’s a big change.”
Lattes and gummies: Food science inspires a new approach to treating gut and liver injury // STAT
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere aim to treat gastrointestinal disorders with a foam that delivers low-levels of carbon monoxide to the body.
Harnessing cooling tower plumes to provide purified water // Power Magazine
Infinite Cooling, an MIT startup, is developing a new system that can capture water from cooling tower plumes and could significantly reduce water consumption in evaporative cooling tower systems. “The technology that is developed could lead to significant water savings and improve water quality with minimal energy cost.”
Watch This
FuseBot, a new robotic system developed at MIT, uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile. Its algorithms locate more hidden items — like the toy Tim the Beaver seen above — than other sophisticated robotic systems, and in half the time.
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A good day has some math in it.
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