A study co-authored by Michaël Marsset details two red objects, discovered in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, that appear to have originated beyond Neptune. “They must have formed in a very cold environment,” he told the New York Times.

Geologists have analyzed erupted material from ocean ridges to estimate the temperature of the Earth’s interior. This information “is fundamental to understanding the planet as a heat engine, and how Earth might be different from other planets,” says Stephanie Brown Krein.

Alexis Sablone MArch ’16 spoke with the Washington Post about street skateboarding, competing at this year’s Olympics, and why she is uncomfortable with being defined. “I’m just always like trying to be myself and do things that I love,” she said.

Making it through his Covid-era senior year with curiosity and community, recent mathematics and EECS graduate Miles Johnson ’21 employed a strong dorm network and personal interests including rock climbing and jazz.

The brain’s “memory center” is needed to recognize image sequences, but not single sights. “This offers the opportunity to actually understand, in a very concrete way, how the hippocampus contributes to memory storage in the cortex,” Mark Bear says.

Michael Short’s longtime interest in radiation’s effects on metals has led to new interests in nuclear security and microreactors. “Remarkably, the stuff I started studying in my first year of college is what I do today, though I’ve extended this work in many directions,” he says.