Seeds and sustainability + InvenTeams + pedestrian patterns

By rahmat hidayat

Jumat, 01 Agustus 2025

view in browser MIT Daily August 1, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Seeds and Sustainability An MIT study shows fruit-eating animals help tropical forests absorb carbon, by dispersing seeds and enabling new trees to grow. “When we lose our animals, we’re losing the ecological infrastructure that keeps our tropical forests healthy and resilient,” Research Scientist Evan Fricke says. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines New algorithms enable efficient machine learning with symmetric data This new approach could lead to enhanced AI models for drug and materials discovery. Full story via MIT News → How the brain distinguishes oozing fluids from solid objects A new study finds parts of the brain’s visual cortex are specialized to analyze either solid objects or flowing materials like water or sand. Full story via MIT News → InvenTeams turns students into inventors The Lemelson-MIT program challenges student teams across the country to solve problems in their communities — and present their inventions at MIT. Full story via MIT News → Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service The MIT community celebrates their fellow staff members’ talent and dedication to the Institute. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mit on Instagram→ In the Media The way people walk in cities has changed // Newsweek MIT researchers have found that “pedestrians in three major northeastern U.S. cities — Boston, New York, and Philadelphia — are moving 15 percent faster than they did in 1980.” The researchers hope their findings will “inform how cities design and redesign public areas — especially at a time when digital polarization is reshaping how people connect in real life.” Full story via Newsweek→ Watch This In a recent TED talk, Ariel Ekblaw SM ’17, PhD ’20 reveals a roadmap for space infrastructure focused on the public good. The TESSERAE project, a self-assembling autonomous robotic system, was developed while Ekblaw was pursuing her PhD at the MIT Media Lab and offers an efficient method for building space habitats and stations. In her continued research in space infrastructure through the Aurelia Institute, a nonprofit research lab for space technology and architecture, Ekblaw hopes to build “an aspirational future for humanity wherever we are: on Earth, in orbit around Earth, or beyond.” Watch the video→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by the feeling of home, sweet home. ⚾ The MIT Daily is publishing on a summer Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule through August. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your weekend! —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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