Wearable cancer detector + fixing U.S. health care + science filmmaking

Researchers develop a machine-learning technique that can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer data.

In her latest book, “We’ve Got You Covered,” Professor Amy Finkelstein prescribes a complete overhaul of our health insurance system.

The new dataset, collected as part of a US Coast Guard science mission, will be open source to help advance naval mission planning and climate change studies.

Students in MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing produce short-form documentaries exploring topics in science.

Professor Jay Scheib’s augmented reality-infused production of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” brought “fantastical images” to audience members. “We sort of focus on a future society in which myth has become possible again,” said Scheib. “But at the same time, we’re not that far in the future and the third act is set around a broken lithium-ion field. We’re set in a world that is somehow post-planet and post-collapse of energy production.”

Professor Daron Acemoglu and graduate student Todd Lensman have created “the first economic model of how to regulate transformative technologies” like artificial intelligence.