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PhD student Hao Zhang has found that firms linked by supply chains — including those that cross borders — also share political goals. “Interests are blurred now,” he says, “because industries are interconnected by production relationships.”

Fusion physics pioneer and MIT climate change leader Anne White hopes to help “save the world with nuclear.”

Every fall, some 7,000 students arrive on campus, joining around 5,000 already here. In preparation, staff and faculty have made ready 6,210 dorm rooms, 30 residence halls, 13,828 offices, 5,488 labs, and 119 academic buildings. Thank you, MIT employees!

MIT’s MOXIE experiment started making oxygen on Mars in April 2021, when it touched down as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. The instrument is now reliably producing six grams of oxygen per hour — about the rate of a modest tree on Earth.

A new machine-learning model can automatically learn the rules and patterns of human languages. “We wanted to see if we can emulate the kinds of knowledge and reasoning that humans bring to the task,” says Adam Albright.