​​Using computational tools, PhD student Jana Saadi seeks to make product design more creative and inclusive. In MIT D-Lab, where she is based, “you’re not creating products for people; you’re creating products with people,” she says.

A new study finds that when adults gain access to Medicaid, some sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too. “We were just trying to get a sense of whether there were impacts on the children, and how large these effects were,” Amy Finkelstein says.

“A lot of superhero stories are based on complete nonsense,” says Amy Chu ’91, who brought science and diversity to comics following her own transformation from management consultant to comic book writer. “Every story I do I try to ground in science.”

Natel Energy, founded by siblings Gia Schneider ’99 and Abe Schneider ’02, SM ’03, is deploying hydropower plants with fish-safe turbines and other features designed to mimic natural river conditions.

Via @sloanstudentlife on Instagram: “To see, or not to see: that is the question…and we saw! Last night Nia and a group of students watched a performance of Shakespeare’s, Much Ado About Nothing, while enjoying some ‘snackle’ boxes”

Yoel Fink discussed smart textiles with the Washington Post, which wrote that his team has “created fibers with hundreds of [silicon] microchips to transmit digital signals — essential if clothes are to automatically track things like heart rate or foot swelling.”