In MIT’s long-running Battlecode competition, student teams from around the world program huge armies of digital bots that duke it out in an epic video-game-style tournament. “The spirit of the competitors is what makes the program so great,” says junior Andy Wang. Watch video
Popular Science interviewed Josh McDermott about his research on how music can impact a person’s mood. “There’s this big cultural shift in the way that we consume music and other audio that really happened over the last decade,” he says.
The DART mission, including postdoc Saverio Cambioni, smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, showing for the first time that such an object can potentially be deflected away from Earth.
Anna Osherov, an assistant director at MIT.nano, helps researchers use state-of-the-art tools to probe materials’ nanoscale properties. She was attracted to materials science because of its breadth and interdisciplinary perspective — as she puts it, “Everything around us is material.”
MIT composer Tod Machover’s piece “Overstory Overture” premieres at Lincoln Center on March 7, with superstar Joyce DiDonato in a leading — and surprising — role.
Via @mitpics on Instagram: “Afternoon sun streaming through MIT’s lobby 7.”
Science Surfaces is a collection of accessories designed by high schoolers and inspired by MIT research. “Science and technology are the new frontiers of fashion,” says Jay Calderin, Boston Fashion Week founder and lead mentor for the initiative.