Faster data access + versatile Covid vaccines + MacVicar Fellows

Aided by machine learning, scientists are working to develop a vaccine that would be effective against all SARS-Cov-2 strains.

Professors Gabrieli, Gubar, Martin, and Sass are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.

Aleksander Mądry urges lawmakers to ask rigorous questions about how AI tools are being used by corporations.

A new study by MIT scientists finds that the massive wildfires in Australia in 2019 and 2020 unleashed remnants of chlorine-containing molecules in the stratosphere, expanding and prolonging the ozone hole and suggesting that more frequent wildfires could threaten the ozone hole’s recovery. “It’s like a race,” says Professor Susan Solomon. “Does the chlorine decay out of the stratosphere fast enough in the next, say, 40–50 years that the likely increase in intense and frequent wildfires doesn’t end up prolonging the ozone hole?”

Chronicle visits the new MIT Museum, highlighting a number of exhibits, including one exploring the research behind the hunt for gravitational waves and another that examines the impacts humans are having on the environment. “We try to be a window, going both ways, between MIT and the rest of the public,” explains Professor John Durant, director of the MIT Museum. “We’re also trying to get people to have a glimpse of how a world-class research institution actually works.”