| Improving Implants | | | | | | MIT engineers found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by coating them with a hydrogel adhesive. The material binds the device to tissue and prevents the immune system from attacking the device. Full story via MIT News → |
| Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships The Fulbright US Student Program funds research, study, and teaching opportunities abroad. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Making steel with electricity MIT spinout Boston Metal is commercializing a new method for making steel and other metals, to help clean up the emissions-intensive industry. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Using wobbling stellar material, astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the first time The results offer a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their evolution across the universe. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| US voters exhibit “flexible morals” when confronting misinformation A new study finds both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to permit the spreading of misinformation when it articulates a “deeper truth” that captures their grievances. Full story via MIT Sloan→ | |
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| Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed When the senior isn’t using mathematical and computational methods to boost driverless vehicles and fairer voting, she performs with MIT’s many dance groups to keep her on track. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Q&A: A graduating student looks back on his MIT experience Christopher Wang, a senior in EECS, shares his favorite study spaces, how he discovered theater at the Institute, and what he’ll miss most. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Unusual giant planet as fluffy as cotton candy spotted by astronomers // CNN MIT astronomers discovered an exoplanet that is 50% bigger than Jupiter, but still the second lightest planet ever found, with a density similar to cotton candy. Full story via CNN→ |
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| Opinion: Meet the Montreal mayor who declared war on SUVs // Bloomberg David Zipper, a senior fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative, discusses new parking fees based on vehicle weight established in Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, a borough in the city of Montreal, to combat congestion and carbon emissions. Full story via Bloomberg→ |
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| C. Gordon Bell, creator of a personal computer prototype, dies at 89 // The New York Times Called the “Frank Lloyd Wright of computers,” technology visionary C. Gordon Bell ’57, SM ’57, “the master architect in the effort to create smaller, affordable, interactive computers that could be clustered into a network,” has died. Full story via The New York Times→ |
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| Scientists shrunk the gap between atoms to an astounding 50 nanometers // Popular Mechanics MIT physicists have “successfully placed two dysprosium atoms only 50 nanometers apart — 10 times closer than previous studies — using ‘optical tweezers.’” Utilizing this technique could allow scientists to better understand quantum phenomena such as superconductivity and superradiance. Full story via Popular Mechanics→ |
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| | | Set in various familiar MIT locations, “Hall That Never Ends” is the opening song from “Log Log Land,” a new film from the MIT Logarhythms. The film contains five original songs inspired by the Oscar Award-winning “La La Land.” According to the group, a full “Log Log Land” album is forthcoming this summer. Watch the video→ |
| | | To mark Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, we highlight two of the first Chinese students to matriculate at MIT, both of whom were members of the Class of 1883. The first, at left in the image here, was Mon Cham Cheong. While not much is known about Cheong, his studies were financed by his father so that he might acquire “a thorough knowledge of mechanics, with a view to its practical use.” In 1879, Cheong was joined by Yung Chung Kwong (right), the first student from the historic Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) to attend MIT. Following in the footsteps of this pioneering pair, as more CEM students matriculated at MIT in the next academic year, Chinese students would gain a real presence on campus. Learn more via “China Comes to MIT”→ |
| | | Can you guess the correct response to this clue that appeared on “Jeopardy!” this week? It’s based on a study in which MIT engineers investigated why a particular cookie’s cream sticks to just one wafer when twisted apart. The researchers subjected the cookie to various tests and even designed a 3D-printable device to grasp and twist it open. “There’s the fascinating problem of trying to get the cream to distribute evenly between the two wafers, which turns out to be really hard,” says Max Fan ’23. Learn the answer via MIT News → |
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