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By unlocking the secrets of anesthesia, Professor Emery Brown could help shed light on brain diseases, hibernation, and possibly even human consciousness: Anesthetic compounds, it turns out, are powerful neuroscience research tools. |
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Assessing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after a year of war
MIT event examines effects of the war on domestic politics and daily life in both Ukraine and Russia.
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Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer
MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020.
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Gabriela Schlau-Cohen: Illuminating photosynthesis
Using ultrafast spectroscopy, the chemistry professor studies the energy transfer that occurs at femtosecond timescales inside plant leaves.
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On social media platforms, more sharing means less caring about accuracy
An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
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Daniel Hastings named American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics president-elect
The head of MIT AeroAstro will assume the presidency in 2024 as the organization’s first Black president.
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Opinion: The pushback against the 15-minute city // The Boston Globe
Professor of the practice Carlo Ratti and Robert Muggah of the SecDev Group explore the pushback against 15-minute cities and how the concept behind creating more accessible neighborhoods could help “facilitate the meaningful and sustained in-person connections that the internet cannot.”
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These researchers used AI to design a completely new “animal robot” // Scientific American
Assistant Professor Ritu Raman discusses her work “building machines that we call bio-hybrid because they’re part biological and part made out of synthetic materials. The biological robots that we’re building are powered by muscle tissue so that every time the muscle contracts, you could get something that looks like movement.”
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Celebrate women in science — today, and every day // Nature
Nature highlights the Rising Stars program at MIT, which “offers mentoring and support for researchers from historically marginalized or under-represented groups, as they move through their careers.”
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MIT is developing a soft robot that takes its inspiration from sea turtles // Mashable
Postdoc Zach Patterson discusses how he and his colleagues are developing a soft robot inspired by a sea turtle that could “potentially offer a closer look at ocean life and assist in further studying aquatic creatures.”
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| MIT’s historic Margaret Cheney Room recently reopened with a celebratory event following renovations and a refresh. The room, originally located at MIT’s Boston campus, was first established as a space for MIT women to gather. It was named after Margaret Swan Cheney, a member of the Class of 1882 who died that same year after a brief illness. The Cheney Room has been located on the third floor of Building 3 since MIT’s move to Cambridge in 1916, and today, it is a space where women-identifying community members gather to relax, study, connect, and build connections. “The Cheney Room really has been there for me whenever and for whatever I needed it to be,” says MIT senior Isabella Salinas. “When I first came by, I immediately felt at home and safe inside an inclusive female-identifying space.”
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We shall long cherish the memory of her alert, original, incisive, and powerful personality; of her determination to uphold whatsoever things are lovely and of good report; and her eagerness to put down all evil, to do away with filth, and to cleanse and purify the dirty places of this too often unclean world.
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—William Sedgwick, founding head of the MIT Department of Biology, of the late MIT donor Sarah Hughes, who funded critical research into Boston’s odoriferous sewage system in the early 1900s
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| Women’s intercollegiate athletics began at MIT in 1973 with basketball, crew, and sailing teams. (Seen here is the inaugural MIT field hockey team in 1977.) Today, female student-athletes can participate in more than a dozen varsity sports and more than two dozen club teams, some of which are co-ed. |
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