Astronomy and art + humidity and Covid + Artemis I + remembering Nonabah Lane

A new study links very dry and very humid indoor environments with worse Covid-19 outcomes.

Yesterday, NASA successfully launched the Artemis I mission. In an interview, MIT experts weigh in on the importance of the mission to future space exploration.

Lane leaves a lasting legacy at the Institute and on tribal communities around the country.

Boston Globe correspondent Scott Kirsner explores the development underway in Kendall Square with Michael Owu, managing director of real estate for the MIT Investment Management Company, and Sarah Gallop, co-director of the MIT Office of Government and Community Relations. “If you haven’t been to Kendall recently, it’s turning into a real neighborhood,” writes Kirsner. “On our walk, we passed two barber shops, a florist, a grocery store, and a Dig restaurant I hadn’t noticed. We also ducked into the subterranean MIT Press Bookstore, recently relocated and newly renovated.”

Lisa Dyson PhD ’04 founded a company called Air Protein, which is developing a technique to make a meat substitute “using just microbes, water, renewable energy and elements found in the air.”