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December 2023
Issues
- 12/08 - Onboarding AI + bonding through golf + MIT Women’s League
- 12/07 - Optimizing nuclear energy + climate outlook + magic and design
- 12/06 - Colorful compounds + Alzheimer’s risk + Lotte Bailyn looks back
- 12/05 - AI for logistics + understanding “glycoscience” + new MIT record
- 12/04 - From lab to fork + future of open-access + immune action
- 12/01 - Peer mentorship + cosmic curiosity + efficient hydrogels
November 2023
Issues
- 11/30 - Tracking time + generative AI + building connections
- 11/29 - Signaling in living cells + peer coaching + climate change forum
- 11/28 - MIT Game Lab + nanoparticles for clean energy + teaching STEM
- 11/27 - Meaningful mentorship + CRISPR discovery + corporate energy transition
- 11/22 - Defending democracy + Kennedy Scholarships + Fibonacci fun
- 11/21 - Science and systems + political polarization + UROP
- 11/20 - Sleep monitor pill + China-Russia alignment + climate clock
- 11/17 - Wearable ultrasound + transformative mentors + MIT DoingWell
- 11/16 - Power of knowledge + improved 3D printing + remembering Willard Johnson
- 11/15 - Greener fertilizer + graphene surprise + MITverses
- 11/14 - Images for algorithms + laser communications + Prather to lead ChemE
- 11/13 - Mars simulation + Rhodes Scholar + "Barbie" marketing
- 11/09 - Generative AI explained + trapped electrons + learning from failure
- 11/08 - Indigenous rocketeers + Israel-Hamas conflict + entrepreneurship at any age
- 11/07 - Latin American e-commerce + scaling decarbonization + space walk
- 11/06 - Mining history + language of color + sustainable startups
- 11/03 - Health equity + online polarization + carbon capture startup
- 11/02 - Changing careers + fuel from CO2 + books under attack
- 11/01 - Cleaner vehicles + evaporating light + planning just Indigenous futures
October 2023
Issues
- 10/31 - Leaner machine learning + kid-speak + spooky plasmas
- 10/30 - Learning like a computer + Tetris champ + engineering communication
- 10/27 - Masonry marvel + inclusive genetic models + student inventors
- 10/26 - Shape-shifting fibers + MIT Policy Lab + understanding refrigerants
- 10/25 - White House honors four from MIT + smart irrigation + OctoStudio
- 10/24 - Designing with sustainability + quantum squeezing + water polo champs 🤽🏻
- 10/23 - Understanding exercise + nursing crisis + creating change in Africa
- 10/20 - Sparking STEM interest + nuclear waste + Head of the Charles
- 10/19 - Graphene surprise + new Covid drugs + from MIT to Burning Man
- 10/18 - Political persuasion + indoor air pollution + AI education
- 10/17 - Efficient packing robots + solar fuel + US polls
- 10/16 - Future of fusion + MIT MakerLodge + gravitational waves
- 10/13 - Cleaner concrete + quasicrystals + inventor gender gap
- 10/12 - Psyche mission + kids’ mindfulness + writers at MIT
- 10/11 - Rock music + AI copilots + National Academy of Medicine honorees
- 10/10 - Robot dexterity + engineering cells + Boston's Big Dig
- 10/06 - Caring for Hawaiʻi + reducing AI energy + Indigenous scientists and engineers
- 10/05 - Celebrating Nobel laureate Moungi Bawendi + quantum dot science
- 10/04 - Moungi Bawendi wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry 🏅
- 10/03 - Beliefs about AI + teachers united + MIT vs. flu
- 10/02 - From Syria to MIT + generative AI + cancer drug targets
September 2023
Issues
- 09/29 - Decoding Alzheimer’s + MLK Visiting Scholars + women in STEM
- 09/28 - Simpler desalination + equitable air quality + international alignments
- 09/27 - Linguistic puzzle + remembering Evelyn Fox Keller + new science faculty
- 09/26 - Asteroid sample return + superconducting qubits + design justice
- 09/25 - Shifting middle class + risks of third-party AI tools + language’s role
- 09/22 - Designing sustainable materials + Lasker Award + bias in medical AI
- 09/21 - Indigenous ingenuity + improving AI accuracy + the secret to good schools
- 09/20 - Avoiding the ER + tackling deforestation + MIT patents
- 09/19 - Insulin without injections + social implications of generative AI + US News rankings
- 09/18 - Personalized 3D printing + decarbonizing industry + the art of rap
- 09/15 - Replacing doctor visits + reducing campus emissions + remembering Bill Pounds
- 09/14 - Lithium-ion insights + greener computing + China’s future
- 09/13 - Robots for rehabilitation + Demo Day + carbon-capturing mist
- 09/12 - Efficient computer vision + smart pills + space-ripple detector
- 09/11 - Friendly robots + carbon capture + new SHASS faculty
- 09/08 - Curbing concrete + new RNA vaccines + biofilms in space + science art
- 09/07 - Undersea telecom + generative AI and the law + prepping campus for fall
- 09/06 - New Hobby Shop + Alzheimer’s advance + wave science 🌊
- 09/05 - A new semester begins + noncontact ultrasound + the trouble with “vegan”
- 09/01 - Cloud gaming + robotic manipulation + campus energy efficiency
August 2023
Issues
- 08/31 - Ms. Nuclear Energy + improved MRI + Global Diversity Lab
- 08/30 - Detecting contaminants + using generative AI + Barbie TARDIS (Barbis)
- 08/29 - Welcoming first-years + jet fuel from biomass + alumna lifts off 🚀
- 08/28 - Why 1.5 C matters + inequities in medical AI + WormWideWeb
- 08/25 - Campaigning for climate + Indigenous futurist sci-fi + summer research
- 08/23 - Ultrastrong materials + Venice Biennale + political rumors + chess bot
- 08/21 - Looking beyond hardware + quantum arrays + AI and jobs
- 08/11 - Reading the brain + open access scholarship + race science
- 08/09 - Tracking cancer + youth and social media + larger-than-life art 🦩
- 08/07 - Surprising immune discovery + fake images + MIT Museum collections
- 08/04 - Opera meets augmented reality + forests and climate + fusion fun
- 08/02 - Metamaterials + energy-storing concrete + board game design 🎲
July 2023
Issues
- 07/31 - Wearable cancer detector + fixing U.S. health care + science filmmaking
- 07/28 - Jobs and gender + evaporative cooling + public transit and remote work
- 07/26 - Spotlight on President Kornbluth + AI in science + solar car racing
- 07/24 - Cleaner manufacturing + Tau tangles + Barbies in STEM
- 07/14 - Preserving Marma + mRNA manufacturing + color-changing oceans
- 07/12 - Geology from space + superconductor science + Phi Beta Kappa inductees
- 07/10 - Qubit foundry + Earth’s hottest days + Taylor Swift and mass transit
- 07/07 - Better packing with AI + nanoLEDs + representation in health care
- 07/05 - Summer reading from MIT + better chart captions + textile design
June 2023
Issues
- 06/30 - Equity in STEM education + new gene-editing system + SCOTUS decision
- 06/28 - Visualizing human patterns + antibiotic resistance + kids and AI
- 06/26 - Polymer bonds + quantum light + inflation + spacewalk
- 06/23 - Gut communication + political ads + women in engineering
- 06/22 - Palm oil alternative + new brain atlas + queer cinema
- 06/21 - Forging bonds in chemistry + remembering Roman Jackiw + MIT Dormline
- 06/20 - Music tech + AI art + building with recycled bottles
- 06/16 - Marking Juneteenth + soft electronic implants + MIT advising
- 06/15 - Sports analytics + understanding new tech + celebrating Pride
- 06/14 - Mapping cities + safe autopilot + diversity in STEM + MIT Gala
- 06/13 - Taekwondo + toward degradable polymers + MIT’s “technical polyglots”
- 06/12 - Modern metallurgy + wildfires and health + attracting diverse applicants
- 06/09 - Bioinspired bots + social movement evolution + dancing into science
- 06/08 - Electrifying airplanes + MIT’s diversity + studying music
- 06/07 - Boomerang universe + vibration vs. Alzheimer’s + All-Americans
- 06/06 - Fab labs + track and field national champs + Tech Reunions
- 06/05 - Congratulations, MIT Class of 2023!
- 06/02 - MIT Commencement: OneMIT ceremony + Mark Rober + new grads
- 06/01 - OneMIT Commencement + spotlight on seniors + making algebra fun
May 2023
Issues
- 05/31 - MIT Commencement volunteers + 150 years of MIT alumnae
- 05/30 - Sound expressions + fish evolution + digital MIT diplomas
- 05/26 - Semester’s end + Memorial Day + LIGO returns
- 05/25 - Diet and cancer + surgery outside the OR + building city community
- 05/24 - Extreme boiling + from MIT to City Hall + MIT climate action
- 05/23 - Seeing materials with AI + EV charging + Indigenous incubator + Tim the BeaVR
- 05/22 - Empowered by math + AI inequality + remembering George Clark
- 05/19 - Architectural preservation + Solve at MIT + future of AI
- 05/18 - Engineering with art + Hammond wins Killian Award + Hart to lead MechE
- 05/17 - Smart sutures + student art + math legend‘s farewell + MIT Press colophon
- 05/16 - Creative dreams + Fulbright Scholars + AI judgements
- 05/15 - Prosthetic care + climate resilience + color-changing wrap
- 05/12 - Microbial mariners + global languages + vibrant cities
- 05/11 - Testing for antibodies + offshore winds + speaking MIT
- 05/10 - Reflection-based cameras + language gene + presidential podcast
- 05/09 - Genome maps + global voices in space + MIT-Ukraine program
- 05/08 - Galactic investigator + knotty mystery + online learning
- 05/05 - Sailing at MIT + vision and the brain + AI-boosted resumes
- 05/04 - Planet-eating star + ingestible “electroceutical” + engineering Star Wars
- 05/03 - Measuring motion + climate education + mini vacuum pump
- 05/02 - Inauguration of MIT President Sally Kornbluth
- 05/01 - Community Day + cancer paper test + Yoon Suk Yeol visits MIT
April 2023
Issues
- 04/28 - Presidential inauguration + consciousness + social media and mental health
- 04/27 - Gripper robot + new black hole imagery + Soros Fellows
- 04/26 - Data justice + solar tech + medical nanoparticles
- 04/25 - Assisted clotting + drone navigation + encouraging vaccination
- 04/24 - Urban winemaker + meteorite hunting + Edgerton Award
- 04/21 - Celebrating Earth Day at MIT
- 04/20 - Alzheimer’s neurons + querying the cosmos + assisting architects
- 04/19 - Science reporting + Truman Scholar + presidential podcast
- 04/18 - Money in politics + teaching happiness + Collier's cranes
- 04/14 - Fast evolution + improving carbon capture + remembering Sean Collier
- 04/13 - Desert feathers + drugs for plants + MIT beekeeping
- 04/12 - Space winds + storing energy + on the ground in Ukraine
- 04/11 - Nuclear shutdown impacts + Mel King Fellows + responsible investing
- 04/10 - Environmental leadership + program debugging + women in business
- 04/07 - Ecogenesis + political messaging + supporting grad students
- 04/06 - Bilingualism in medicine + AI for drug discovery + board games
- 04/05 - AI aids materials design + remembering Mel King + Red Sox honor MIT athletes
- 04/04 - Greening rooftops + ethical AI + MIT Climate Portal
- 04/03 - Soccer bots + protein engineering + retirement crisis
March 2023
Issues
- 03/31 - Lung nanoparticles + purpose vs. profit + palm oil substitute
- 03/30 - Nanoscale design + climate change in Hawaii + origins of life
- 03/29 - Collision avoidance + trusting AI models + storied women of MIT
- 03/28 - Greener concrete + combating antibiotic resistance + African diaspora studies
- 03/27 - Cell mechanics + climate science education + Dialogues Across Difference
- 03/24 - Coding for health equity + hybrid work + MIT’s first female student
- 03/23 - Tracking counterfeit seeds + our transcendent brains + QS subject rankings
- 03/22 - Turing Award + automation and jobs + space policy
- 03/21 - Textile recycling + Iraq War + skyrmion science + climate action
- 03/20 - Palindrome poet + AI and car design + smart hinges
- 03/17 - Equitable cities + air pollution checker + resilient robo-bugs
- 03/16 - Electric vehicle charging + remembering Peter Baddoo + dog rescue
- 03/15 - Sidewalk maps + Rett syndrome + regulating banks
- 03/14 - Pi Day at MIT + lunar bots + history of quantum computing
- 03/13 - Faster data access + versatile Covid vaccines + MacVicar Fellows
- 03/10 - AI ethics + Māori youth and city planning + agricultural robots
- 03/09 - Wildfires and ozone + Hastings to lead AIAA + nanotube plant sensors
- 03/08 - How photosynthesis works + climate education + women at MIT
- 03/07 - Secrets of anesthesia + war in Ukraine + geophysics quilt + MIT vs. poop
- 03/06 - Sharing social media + barriers to entrepreneurship + deep time
- 03/03 - MIT Battlecode + DART mission + moody music
- 03/02 - Nanoscale science + video game biases + “Overstory Overture”
- 03/01 - Cheaper protein drugs + future of advanced computing + Lovelace and Babbage opera
February 2023
Issues
- 02/28 - Fundamental physics + music and social justice + equitable climate policy
- 02/27 - MIT Black history + Putnam math champions + ESG investing
- 02/24 - Purpose through service + unusual brains + snowy MIT
- 02/23 - Robotic hearts + greener pavement + Black artists + MIT Juggling Club
- 02/22 - Efficient microchip + sustainable phosphorus + AI and jobs
- 02/21 - Extracting ocean CO2 + building better batteries + AI in music
- 02/17 - Designing new materials + crafting qubits + sustainable, equitable engineering
- 02/16 - Tracking stolen bikes + regulating water + painting with light
- 02/15 - Ocean investigations + earthquake relief + new NAE members + running record
- 02/14 - MIT love stories + remembering Priscilla King Gray
- 02/13 - Flourishing with dyslexia + Battlebots + Black history at MIT
- 02/10 - Struggling against racism + substance use disorder + remembering Edgar Schein
- 02/09 - Medicine and service + aquabots + ice hockey hero
- 02/08 - Benefits of preschool + next-gen polymers + greening affordable housing
- 02/07 - Machine-learning solutions + cell therapies + MIT Admissions blogging
- 02/06 - Recycling small plastics + lung cancer discovery + equitable EV chargers
- 02/03 - Vertical LEDs + cultural polarization + living cities
- 02/02 - Molecular resonance + spleen-on-a-chip + women leading MIT
- 02/01 - Injectable hydrogels + sustainable furniture + STEM for kids
January 2023
Issues
- 01/31 - Paying it forward + graphene switch + pollution and cognition
- 01/30 - Inspiring with art + synthetic data + rich traditions of Brazilian music
- 01/27 - Tools for data science + cancer nanoparticles + new uses for origami
- 01/26 - Living boldly at MIT + measuring the brain + future of robotics
- 01/25 - Gas Turbine Lab + studying in Ukraine + remembering Andrea Chegut
- 01/24 - Sensing with purpose + data literacy + simulated aging
- 01/23 - Huntington's neurons + granular push + Learning Beautiful
- 01/20 - Toxins around us + quantum simulator + recipes for new materials
- 01/19 - Next-gen transistors + Alzheimer's update + power of data science
- 01/18 - Preparing to be prepared + working memory + MIT OCW in Turkey
- 01/17 - Autonomous-car computing emissions + NCAA Woman of the Year
- 01/13 - Granular flows + effects of extreme heat + MIT pool goes to the dogs
- 01/12 - Engineering in harmony + enzyme atlas + age-friendly jobs
- 01/11 - Ancient climates + quantum architecture + virtual xenophobia
- 01/10 - MIT’s new design hub + gene transfer + time to getfit
- 01/09 - AI’s “black box” + secrets of Roman concrete + IAP begins
- 01/06 - Spintronics + why language is hard + hello from President Kornbluth
- 01/05 - Nanoscale competition + light in the brain + D-Lab + Age of Enlightenment
- 01/04 - Exploring morality + your brain on code + taxing robots
- 01/03 - Looking back on 2022 at MIT