Gut communication + political ads + women in engineering

The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.

Assistant Professor Nidhi Seethapathi seeks to understand why we move the way we do.

In politics, tailored ads make sense, but with real limits to the tailoring.

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Research Program Director Marcela Angel MCP ’18 has built an international program in natural climate solutions.

Postdoc Ziv Epstein SM ’19, PhD ’23, graduate student Robert Mahari, and Jessica Fjeld of Harvard Law School explore how generative AI will impact creative work and whether U.S. copyright laws can adequately deal with the resulting challenges. “The ways in which existing laws are interpreted or reformed — and whether generative AI is appropriately treated as the tool it is — will have real consequences for the future of creative expression,” the authors note.

Cleana, a startup launched by engineers from MIT and Boston University, is developing “a new kind of toilet seat that raises or lowers itself to avoid unwelcome splashes, or to prevent objects from falling accidentally into the bowl.”