Toxins around us + quantum simulator + recipes for new materials

A new technique helps verify the accuracy of experiments that probe the strange behavior of atomic-scale systems.

A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course MAS.S64 (How to Grow (Almost) Anything) leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology.

Elsa Olivetti and Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli lead a collaboration that pairs computational design with machine learning to invent and improve materials.

MIT researchers have found “fires started by people account for a majority of premature deaths related to inhalation of tiny smoke particles in the United States.”

Professor Heather Hendershot explores the growth of politically-biased news coverage, comparing Ted Baxter of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — a fictional news anchor more interested in personal fame than journalistic standards — to today’s pundits. Baxter “embodied the ego of the pundit, but without the opinions that often make such a person dangerous,” writes Hendershot.