Engineers have designed a tiny battery, smaller than a grain of sand, to power microscopic robots for jobs such as drug delivery or locating leaks in gas pipelines. “This is going to form the core of a lot of our robotic efforts,” Michael Strano says.

PhD student Dominika Ďurovčíková is studying distant black holes called quasars to illuminate the moment when galaxies could first be observed. She loves astronomy because when looking at the stars, “you realize there’s something more than your everyday struggles.”

A new implantable device can detect an opioid overdose and rapidly pump out a dose of naloxone. “This could really address a significant unmet need in the population that suffers from substance abuse and opiate dependency,” Gio Traverso says.

Cady Coleman ’83, a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel, recalls how a talk by astronaut Sally Ride at MIT inspired her. “In her quiet way, Sally Ride shattered assumptions I didn’t know I had,” Coleman writes in the Wall Street Journal.

With skateboarding growing in popularity, Bloomberg reported that Alexis Sablone MA ’16, coach of the 2024 Olympic Women’s U.S. Skateboarding Team and a three-time X-Games gold medalist, recently designed skate park elements for a site in New Jersey.

Researchers used large language models to detect anomalies in vast amounts of data recorded over time. The method, which uses pretrained models right “out of the box,” could help technicians detect potential faults in a wind turbine or satellite within a network.