Smart sutures + student art + math legend‘s farewell + MIT Press colophon

With the new method, scientists can explore many cancer mutations whose roles are unknown, helping them develop new drugs that target those mutations.

“Sometimes you have to allow some immediate pain in order to have a system that’s more resilient,” Peirce said at a recent MIT event.

A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits.

Winning works ask: What happens when technologies fulfill their mission? What happens when they fail or decay, or when the need for which they were created no longer exists?

MIT scientists find that the earlier stages of sleep are key to sparking creativity and that people can be guided to dream about specific topics, further boosting creativity. “There is an objective and experimental link between incubation of some specific dream and postsleep creativity around that topic,” explains postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz. “This validates centuries of anecdotal reports from people who are in the creative space.”

Principal Research Scientist Ana Jaklenec discusses her work developing a mobile vaccine printer. The device “can be very important in certain scenarios when you’re trying to bring the ability to vaccinate in areas that might not have the right infrastructure to make vaccines or even to administer vaccines,” says Jaklenec, “so I think the portability is key here.”