By stacking light-emitting diodes instead of arranging them side-by-side, engineers have found a way to make sharper, defect-free displays for AR and VR. “With our vertical micro-LEDs, you could have a completely immersive experience,” says Jiho Shin.

Via @MITLL on Twitter: “DYK: Dr. Wade M. Kornegay became the first African American division head of Radar Measurements @MITLL in 1986.”

While common in music, resonance can also occur at much smaller scales — though the phenomenon hasn’t been observed in molecules until now. “We observed something completely unexpected,” Wolfgang Ketterle says.

President Sally Kornbluth, Provost Cynthia Barnhart, and Chancellor Melissa Nobles spoke on WBUR about the value of representation for women and underrepresented groups in STEM. WBUR noted that “all of the university’s top administrators are now women.”

With the new MIT Alumni Lounge, some 143,000 alumni who once walked the Infinite Corridor as students now have a permanent home there. “Now there is a place right in the heart of campus that we alumni can really call our own,” Annalisa Weigel says.

Gel-like materials that can be injected into the body hold great potential to repair or replace diseased tissues. A new framework could help researchers design these materials, speeding up what has until now has been a trial-and-error process.