A new method precisely controls the color and texture of 3D-printed objects made of a single material. Just as desktop printers use one set of inks to generate a range of shades, “we want to be able to do the same thing with a 3D printer,” Mustafa Doğa Doğan says.

A growing portion of Americans who are struggling to pay for their household energy live in the South and Southwest, MIT Sloan researchers report. Their study reveals a climate-driven shift away from heating needs and toward air conditioning use.

Joshua Reed-Diawuoh MBA ’20 is the founder and CEO of GRIA Food Company, which partners with companies that ethically source and process food in West Africa to support local food economies and help communities in the region more broadly.

Engineers found a way to manage the bubbles that form on electrodes during many industrial electrochemical processes, hampering the reactions. With new surface designs, electrodes and electrolyzers could become more energy-efficient and use fewer precious metals.

Via @mit_cheer on Instagram: “We had so much fun cheering on the participants of the @makingstridesboston Breast Cancer Walk! Let’s go Boston”

Victor Ambros ’75, PhD ’79 and Gary Ruvkun share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The pair, who worked together as postdocs at MIT, were honored for their discovery of microRNA, a class of molecules critical for gene regulation.