| Regenerative Powers | | | | | | The human liver has amazing regenerative capabilities: Even if 70 percent of it is removed, the remaining tissue can regrow a new liver within months. By tracing liver regrowth, engineers hope to harness these abilities to help treat chronic disease. Full story via MIT News → |
| MIT engineers devise a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Making art through computation Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Donald Sadoway wins European Inventor Award for liquid metal batteries The MIT professor’s work could enable long-term storage of renewable energy. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet |
MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Tech Reunions returns to campus for historic celebration MIT welcomes nearly 10,000 alumni and guests to celebrate the anniversary of their graduation. Full story via Slice of MIT→ | |
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| He sold his mental-health startup to Airbnb, then relaunched it as a nonprofit with a bigger mission // Fast Company |
Rob Morris PhD ’14 has dedicated his career to easing access to mental health services online. “I want to do for mental health what Google did for flights,” says Morris. Full story via Fast Company→ |
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| Opinion: Google’s powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought // The Conversation Graduate student Anna Ivanova and University of Texas at Austin Professor Kyle Mahowald, along with Professors Evelina Fedorenko, Joshua Tenenbaum and Nancy Kanwisher, make the case that even though AI systems may be able to use language fluently, it does not mean they are sentient, conscious, or intelligent. Full story via The Conversation→ |
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| MIT students bike to Bowling Green to teach STEM on 3,800 mile trip // News 40 The MIT Spokes cycling team has embarked on a 3,800-mile, cross-country bike trip that features frequent stops to offer STEM workshops to middle school students. Full story via News 40→ |
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| AI-powered robot learned to make letters out of Play-Doh on its own // New Scientist MIT CSAIL researchers trained a robot to “use two metal grippers to mold the approximate shapes of the letters B, R, T, X, and A out of Play-Doh. The training involved just 10 minutes of randomly manipulating a block of the modeling clay beforehand, without requiring any human demonstrations.” Full story via New Scientist→ |
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| | | | | A healthy food system means a healthy food system for all — not just the highest earners or people who have tons of free time. | | —Susy Jones, senior sustainability project manager in the MIT Office of Sustainability, in a recent article on adding local foods to your diet Full story via WBUR→ |
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