Across campus, more than 100 resident peer mentors serve as guides to resources, encourage community, and give all kinds of advice. “If first-years have a question, I can point them in the right direction, even if I don’t have the answer,” says junior Kyna McGill.

Via @MITAthletics on X: “A 6-for-6 performance by Angie Choi at the free throw line during the final 45 seconds of regulation helped @mitwbball defeat No. 8/9 Tufts, 66-63, on Wednesday night!”

A new study suggests a way to tune clocks, lasers, and other oscillators to super-quantum precision. The team hopes its work “will advance our fundamental ability to keep time accurately, and enable new revolutionary technologies,” Hudson Laughlin says.

What does the future hold for generative AI? Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, kicked off an MIT symposium on the promise and potential pitfalls of increasingly powerful AI tools like ChatGPT.

“I believe by using AI, whether generative or otherwise, we have the opportunity to find the language of humanity,” media artist Refik Anadol told an MIT audience on the first day of MIT’s Generative AI Week.

A new method allows scientists to label and image many different molecules at once within a living cell. Measuring those signals and how cells respond to them could shed important light on how cells work — including what happens as they age or become diseased.