A new study has found that AI can identify patients’ self-reported race from medical images that contain no indicators detectable by human experts. It’s not clear how medical AI systems are able to do this using only X-rays, CT scans, and mammograms.

Tiffany Chu ’10, chief of staff for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, spoke with the Boston Globe about her goals for creating a more inclusive city. Chu explains that she believes in “knocking down walls and showing people what is possible.”

What will it take to make electronics smarter, faster, and more resilient? One idea is to build them from “topological” materials that retain core properties even when deformed or disrupted. Using supercomputers, physicists have now identified more than 90,000 such materials.

Aerospace engineer Tiera Fletcher ’17 has helped bring to life one of the most powerful rockets ever built — NASA’s Space Launch System — while also mentoring kids from underrepresented groups in STEM. “We can’t underestimate the impact that we can have on a student,” she says. 

Via @mitsloanfellows on Instagram: “As we countdown to Commencement, we recognize our MIT SFMBA Class of 2022 participating in another Sloan favorite: the Day of Service.”

“We were lucky that researchers and companies had been working for decades on RNA and nanoparticles, and specifically on the use of mRNA for vaccines for many years,” says Daniel Anderson, co-author of a Nature Biotechnology review on mRNA therapies.