It has been another prolific year for MIT’s research community in 2023. As we close out the year, MIT News looks back at some of our most popular stories from the last 12 months. We’ve also rounded up the year’s top MIT community-related stories. Cheaper water desalination: MIT engineers and collaborators developed a desalination system that can produce freshwater that is even cheaper than tap water. The passive, solar-powered device avoids the salt-clogging issues that plague other designs. Why was Roman concrete so durable? Researchers discovered ancient concrete-manufacturing strategies that…