| Eliminating TB | | | | | | | By studying how M. tuberculosis interacts with the immune system, MIT Associate Professor Bryan Bryson seeks vaccine targets to help eliminate TB. “Engineering and infectious disease go hand-in-hand, because engineers love a problem, and tuberculosis is a really hard problem,” he says. | | | | Why aren’t AI open models more widely used? Open-source and open-weight AI models perform well and cost less — but users opt for closed models 80% of the time, according to new research. |  | | | | | | | A new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items “MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects iridescent. |  | | | | | | | Study: The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy MIT physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, confirming the plasma behaves like a liquid. |  | | | | | | | Electrifying boilers to decarbonize industry AtmosZero, co-founded by Addison Stark SM ’10, PhD ’14, developed a modular heat pump to electrify the centuries-old steam boiler. |  | | | | | | | How to navigate the age of agentic AI A new report identifies four tensions that organizations must manage when rolling out agentic artificial intelligence. |  | | | | | | | Taking the heat out of industrial chemical separations The gas-filtering membranes developed by MIT spinout Osmoses offer an alternative to energy-hungry thermal separation for chemicals and fuels. |  | | | | | | | Leading with T1D, featuring university presidents Sally Kornbluth (MIT) and Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins) // Diabetics Doing Things In an appearance on the “Diabetics Doing Things” podcast, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels discuss their experience as Type 1 diabetics, the importance of scientific research to diagnoses and treatments that have impacted millions of fellow Type 1 diabetics across the country, and the impact on their own lives of decades of advances made at leading research universities like theirs. | | | | | | | Opinion: How the polar vortex and warm ocean intensified a major U.S. winter storm // The Conversation MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen and University of Massachusetts at Lowell Professor Mathew Barlow examine how the polar vortex and moisture from a warm Gulf of Mexico created a monster winter storm that affected a large swath of the U.S. | | | | | | | Modeling shows the world is far off track for climate goals // Inside Climate News A report by researchers from MIT’s Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy finds the world is “on track to exceed key climate thresholds under current policies.” | | | | | | | | | | A new episode of Veritasium, a YouTube channel focused on science and engineering, explores the art of slowing time through strobe photography and slow motion. With help from the Edgerton Center at MIT, the video tells the story of legendary professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton’s most iconic photographs, replicating several of his notable experiments using a mix of contemporary and Edgerton-era equipment. The Veritasium team also visits with MIT graduate student Nikhil Behari, whose research involves image capture in the neighborhood of 1 trillion frames per second. The episode was created, in part, by writer-director Leah Sullivan “Sulli” Yost ’22, who double majored in mathematics and writing at MIT. | | In an episode of the new Lifelong Kindergarten Podcast, MIT Professor Mitch Resnick speaks with his longtime collaborator Natalie Rusk about ways to support young people in building on their interests, expanding opportunities for more motivating, memorable, and meaningful learning experiences. Rusk draws on examples from her work as co-creator of the Computer Clubhouse network, Scratch, and OctoStudio.
Listen to the full episode→ | | | | | | | We honor the seven NASA astronauts who died 40 years ago on the space shuttle Challenger, which experienced a catastrophic failure shortly after launch on Jan. 28, 1986. Among them was Ronald McNair PhD ’76 (seated, right, in the photo), who is now the namesake of Building 37 on the MIT campus. In a new essay for MIT Technology Review, fellow NASA astronaut Terry Hart SM ’69 reflects back on the moment and asks: What level of risk is acceptable in our current age of spaceflight — and how do we manage it responsibly? | | |
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