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| MIT WeeklyFebruary 28, 2026 | 
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| Engineering Better Plants| |
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| | Startup Foray Bioscience grows plant products from single cells to create new materials and protect endangered species. "We need new strategies to ensure lasting access to the plant products and ecosystems we depend on," Ashley Beckwith SM '18, PhD '22 says. |
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| | New method could increase LLM training efficiency |
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| By leveraging idle computing time, researchers can double the speed of model training while preserving accuracy. |
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| More trees where they matter, please |
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| An international study reveals disparities in urban shade levels, exacerbating the "heat island" effect in big cities. |
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| | MIT alumni created an experimental installation at the MIT Museum to turn our innermost worlds into collective experiences. |
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| Powering up (and saving) the planet |
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| As the Institute's first VP for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang '00 is marshaling MIT's expertise to meet the greatest challenge of our age. |
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| Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models |
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| A new method developed at MIT could root out vulnerabilities and improve LLM safety and performance. |
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| Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy |
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| Strahinja Janjusevic brings an international perspective and US Naval Academy education to his graduate research in the MIT Technology and Policy Program. |
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| | | | MIT Sloan tops FT Global MBA Ranking for the first time // Financial Times |
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| "[MIT] Sloan is forging tight links with other parts of MIT, which is renowned for its engineering and science expertise, and focusing more on how AI could be used as a tool not to replace jobs but enhance them," says Richard Locke, dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. |
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| "What's your weirdness?" A winter day spent exploring that and many other fun questions at MIT's museums // The Boston Globe |
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| Boston Globe reporters Patricia Harris and David Lyon highlight their recent visits to the MIT Museum, List Visual Arts Center, and the Hart Nautical Gallery. "Setting aside high-school anxieties about an upcoming science lab, it turns out that many of the exhibits are engagingly interactive and — dare we say it — even fun," they write. |
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| Exotic black hole stars could explain the mystery of "little red dots" // Scientific American |
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| Assistant Professor Anna-Christina Eilers and postdoc Rohan Naidu discuss the discovery and study of "little red dots," mysterious red spots that have appeared in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. |
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| | | | In this installment of the "World at MIT" video series, Professor Pattie Maes shares about her early life in Brussels, Belgium, as one of six kids in her family, and how the 1970s oil crisis propelled her to study what she thought was the field of the future: computer science. Realizing she wanted to explore her curiosity and creative interests, Maes went into academia and ultimately ended up at MIT, where she is a professor of media technology. "What brings us together is that we're all very interested in how smart technologies can be used to empower people," she says. |
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| | | MIT Lincoln Laboratory has a rich history of hosting student researchers from around the country. Seen here, in a 1977 photo, are Tennessee University students Michelle Adams (right) and Mickey Shelton, who were in their second year as interns at Lincoln. |
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| This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by cheese (so much cheese). 🧀
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