Helping to make nuclear fusion a reality, PhD student Rachel Bielajew is taking on plasma turbulence, and helping make a better world — through science and community action.

About a third of the world’s food supply never gets eaten. Spoiler Alert, co-founded by Ricky Ashenfelter MBA ’15 and Emily Malina MBA ’15, is helping food and beverage companies discount or donate excess inventory before it expires.

At least 29 MIT community members are on this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list, including 27 alumni. Forbes says that this class is set to “define the next decade — and beyond.”

Via @MITstudents on Twitter: “Flipping Failure is a collection of video stories told by MIT students about their path towards resilience when faced with challenge at MIT. Meet Jessica, a student who developed strategies to cope with her homesickness for Ghana while at MIT.”

Renaldo Webb ’10 founded PetPlate, a fresh-cooked pet food company. Forbes writes that he founded PetPlate when he realized that “low-quality ingredients in [other] pet food had been the underlying reason for many health issues with pets.”

The basement of MIT.nano is home to a specialized microscope so powerful it can visualize the arrangement of atoms within a material. This information can be crucial for engineering materials used in everything from bridges to biomedical devices.