| The Dream Team | | | | | | When drifting between sleep and waking, the creative mind is particularly fertile, a new study shows. “When you are prompted to dream about a topic during sleep onset, you can have dream experiences that you can later use for creative tasks,” says MIT senior Kathleen Esfahany. Full story via MIT News → |
| Engineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation The bioderived “smart sutures” could help patients heal after bowel resection or other types of surgery. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Paula Hammond wins faculty’s Killian Award for 2023-24 The chemical engineer is honored for her work designing polymers and nanomaterials with wide-ranging applications in medicine and energy. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Thirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships The Fulbright US Student Program funds opportunities for research, graduate study, and teaching abroad. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| “In everything I do, I’m a creator” Mechanical engineer and storyteller Hannah Gazdus integrates her love of art into all of her projects. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Architectural heritage like you haven’t seen it before The “Ways of Seeing” project documents endangered Afghan heritage sites through digital imaging, virtual reality, and hand-drawn professional renderings. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023 Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan, Dina Katabi, Gregory Stephanopoulos, and seven additional alumni are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research. Full story via MIT News → |
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| What if windows could generate solar power? // Mashable Ubiquitous Energy, an MIT startup, has created a transparent photovoltaic glass coating, called UE Power, that can turn any surface into a tiny solar panel. Full story via Mashable→ |
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| Color-changing wrap could let you know when food has spoiled // New Scientist Assistant Professor Benedetto Marelli and his colleagues have created “packaging that can react to changes in the food it contains to better indicate when it has gone bad.” Full story via New Scientist→ |
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| Will robots and AI take our jobs? // WBZ News Professor Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, discusses his new book “The Magic Conveyor Belt,” and his research examining the potential impact of AI on the future of work. Full story via WBZ News→ |
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| Covid made us retreat into our corners. A worrisome new study says we haven’t left them // The Boston Globe MIT researchers find interactions between people from different economic backgrounds have dropped significantly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| | | The MIT Press colophon symbolizes the legacy of its creator Muriel Cooper, a graphic design pioneer and longtime member of the MIT community. Over the last 60 years, the design has stood the test of time as a distinctive and iconic logo for one of the largest university presses in the world. It has garnered accolades and inspired adaptations. Last month, the colophon was acquired into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art — becoming the only publisher logo to earn that distinction. Learn more via MIT News→ |
| 392 | | Total number of spokes in the bicycles that will be ridden across the U.S. this summer by MIT Spokes, a team of seven MIT students dedicated to providing STEAM workshops to local communities. Their bike ride will start at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and end at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Learn more via MIT Spokes→ |
| | | Earlier this month, technologist Geoffrey Hinton spoke at an MIT event about artificial intelligence and its potential harms. Hinton, who recently announced he was stepping down from his role as a Google AI researcher after a decade with the company, spoke with Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for AI, at EmTech Digital, an annual AI event hosted at MIT. “I think it’s quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence,” Hinton said. Watch the video→ |
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