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Bubbles rise from an electrode

Spotlight: Oct 10, 2024

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.

Oct 10, 2024

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Tomás Orellana
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A Chilean teen used pharmacology learned via MIT OpenCourseWare to study the medicinal properties of plants: Inspired by traditional medicine, 17-year-old Tomás Orellana is on a mission to identify plants that can help treat students’ health issues.
Victor Ambros, and Gary Ruvkun
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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.