Eco-driving + design and real estate + MIT’s NASA history

By rahmat hidayat

Senin, 11 Agustus 2025

view in browser MIT Daily August 11, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Eco-Driving A new study shows that “eco-driving” — adjusting speed to reduce idling at traffic lights — can cut intersection vehicle emissions up to 22%, with even limited adoption delivering significant benefits. “This is almost a free intervention,” says Associate Professor Cathy Wu. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation Nanophotonic devices developed at MIT are compact, efficient, reprogrammable, adaptive, and able to dynamically respond to external inputs. Full story via MIT News → 3 Questions: Measuring the financial impact of design in the built environment A new book, “Value of Design,” serves as a tribute to the late MIT research scientist Andrea Chegut, whose work linked the economics of innovation to real estate finance and development. Full story via MIT News → MIT documentary “That Creative Spark” wins New England Emmy Award A film produced by MIT Open Learning’s video team shows the art and science of hand-forged knives with master bladesmith Bob Kramer. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mitaeroastro on Instagram→ In the Media Dormant black holes // CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor Graduate student Megan Masterson discusses her research on tidal disruption events. “These events were first theorized in the 1970s, first discovered in the 1990s with X-ray wavelengths,” explains Masterson. “But today, what [the James Webb Space Telescope] is doing is allowing us to detect these events in the infrared band. And so, what we’re seeing here are previously dormant black holes that were kind of lying at the center for their galaxies doing pretty much nothing suddenly become active.”  Full story via CBS Eye on the World→ Did You Know? On Aug. 9, 1961, NASA offered MIT the first Apollo project contract, placing the Institute in charge of developing the computer guidance and navigation system that would take humans to the moon. The contract was signed a day later, on Aug. 10, and the former MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now the independent Draper) got to work designing the highly successful Apollo Guidance Computer. Learn more→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by learning through experience. 🧭 The MIT Daily is publishing on a summer Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule through August. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.ikut@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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