Astronomers have found the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. The team’s detection method, which identified 138 space rocks ranging from bus- to stadium-sized, could aid in tracking potential impacts.

MIT is strengthening collaborations between researchers in the life sciences and engineering to take on pressing health challenges. MIT HEALS will bring together researchers from across campus to find new solutions to challenges in health care. 

Julian Charrière’s first U.S. public art commission, “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More,” was recently installed at Building 55 as three distinct works, each examining the relationship between humans and the natural materials around us. 

Junior Alexis Boykin, with five national championships, is one of the most decorated athletes in MIT Track and Field history. The chemistry and biology major says one benefit of being a student-athlete is “just wanting to be better and better.”

Chemical engineers have designed an environmentally friendly alternative to the microbeads used in some health and beauty products. These particles could also find other applications, like encapsulating nutrients such as vitamin A.

As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program. “Thanks to MIT, I have the knowledge and tools to tackle real-world challenges,” he says.