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Now 99 years old, Sidney Diamond came out of retirement to join the Sinha Lab and study how the brain processes sensory signals. “You have the responsibility to learn as much as you can about the things that interest you,” he says.
New high-speed videos show exactly what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool. The findings may help researchers predict how rainfall and irrigation systems spread particles and pathogens into the air.
Writing in the Boston Globe, President Emeritus L. Rafael Reif highlighted the fundamental contributions made by American universities in advancing scientific and technological innovations, and the role of government funding in these sectors.
Via @mit.nano on Instagram: “During MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) over 300 community members made their own 1x1 chip inside MIT.nano’s cleanroom!”
A new, low-cost device generates high-power terahertz waves and can be packed onto a semiconductor chip. Arrays of these chips could enable more efficient, sensitive electronics for applications like security scanning or environmental monitoring.
The MIT Chapel was named by Financial Times readers as one of the best places of worship in the world. “The Eero Saarinen-designed chapel at MIT is otherworldly,” they write. “This is what spiritual contemplation probably looks like in another galaxy.”
Salvatore Vitale was part of the LIGO team that made the historic first detection of a gravitational wave. Now he is looking for new sources of these cosmic ripples in space-time, reaching beyond what we can learn about the universe through light alone.