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3 Questions: Adam Berinsky on how to...

October 23, 2020

As we approach Election Day 2020, all eyes are on polls — but how accurate are they? A specialist in political behavior and public opinion, Adam Berinsky is the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab. He is the author of “In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq” (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and “Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America”...

Universities should lead the way on climate...

October 23, 2020

Under its Plan for Action on Climate Change, MIT has a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 32 percent below its 2014 emission levels, by 2030. Those reductions are now at 24 percent, and the Institute is track to meet or exceed the goal, said Joe Higgins, vice president for campus services and stewardship, thanks to Institute-wide efforts that benefit from connecting research and operations. In the fifth of six symposia in the Climate Action...

Lincoln Laboratory receives 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower...

October 23, 2020

This year, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) selected MIT Lincoln Laboratory as the recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Research and Development. This annual award recognizes a large federal government prime contractor that excels in partnering with small business subcontractors and suppliers. Currently, the laboratory works with more than 2,000 small businesses from Massachusetts. Each year, approximately $500 million is awarded to subcontractors for parts and services, with 40-50 percent of that amount going to small...

Yogesh Surendranath wants to decarbonize our energy...

October 23, 2020

Electricity plays many roles in our lives, from lighting our homes to powering the technology and appliances we rely on every day. Electricity can also have a major impact at the molecular scale, by powering chemical reactions that generate useful products. Working at that molecular level, MIT chemistry professor Yogesh Surendranath harnesses electricity to rearrange chemical bonds. The electrochemical reactions he is developing hold potential for process such as splitting water into hydrogen fuel, creating more efficient fuel cells,...

A letter to the MIT community on...

October 22, 2020

The following letter was sent to the MIT community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, Because this year’s elections will have profound consequences, the coming weeks will demand a great deal of us as a people. So I would like to reflect on how I hope we will navigate this time as a community and to offer some practical guidance. In a most difficult year, this political season adds further uncertainty. Already, feelings...

Solve Challenge Finals go virtual for 2020

October 22, 2020

We have all faced new and greater challenges this year. The Covid-19 pandemic has spared no country, family, or individual, but it has not impacted us all equally. It is those most disadvantaged and most underserved who have been hit the hardest. The team at MIT Solve felt an immediate responsibility to use its work and privilege to take action in this historic moment, to mobilize its community to address the problems aggravated by the pandemic. The Solve Global...

Why soldiers fight

October 22, 2020

Matthew Cancian concluded his service in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2013, but in some ways he never left his Afghanistan battlefield experience behind. A rising fifth-year doctoral candidate in political science, Cancian researches what motivates people to enlist and to engage in combat. “It could be said that my dissertation is a poorly disguised attempt to understand myself,” says Cancian. During a seven-month tour of duty in Helmand province, Cancian served as an artillery officer responsible for delivering...

A wearable sensor to help ALS patients...

October 22, 2020

People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) suffer from a gradual decline in their ability to control their muscles. As a result, they often lose the ability to speak, making it difficult to communicate with others. A team of MIT researchers has now designed a stretchable, skin-like device that can be attached to a patient’s face and can measure small movements such as a twitch or a smile. Using this approach, patients could communicate a variety of sentiments, such as...

Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects

October 22, 2020

We’ve come a long way since the first 3D-printed item came to us by way of an eye wash cup, to now being able to rapidly fabricate things like car parts, musical instruments, and even biological tissues and organoids. While much of these objects can be freely designed and quickly made, the addition of electronics to embed things like sensors, chips, and tags usually requires that you design both separately, making it difficult to create items where the added...

“What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots”

October 22, 2020

As Covid-19 has made it necessary for people to keep their distance from each other, robots are stepping in to fill essential roles, such as sanitizing warehouses and hospitals, ferrying test samples to laboratories, and serving as telemedicine avatars. There are signs that people may be increasingly receptive to robotic help, preferring, at least hypothetically, to be picked up by a self-driving taxi or have their food delivered via robot, to reduce their risk of catching the virus. As...

Get Out the Vote Fest attracts 1,000...

October 21, 2020

With little more than 20 days leading up to the presidential election, a cohort of MIT student groups came together to organize a voting extravaganza well-suited for physical distancing. Get Out the Vote Fest was a virtual music festival — self-described as a “voter mobilization festival” — featuring headliners like Yo-Yo Ma and Bren Joy, as well as myriad artists across the United States. The event took place on Sunday, Oct. 11, just before MIT observed its first official...

It’s the virtual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch,...

October 21, 2020

Autumn rituals include leaf peeping, apple picking, and pie making. And for 20 years, many members of the MIT community have made time for the MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, held annually on the Kresge Lawn. When Covid-19 forced classes and other activities to stop in March, the staff and students in the W. David Kingery Ceramics and Glass Lab had already made 450 pumpkins out of the planned 1,500 that would be the main fundraiser for lab operations....

Engineers design a heated face mask to...

October 21, 2020

The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts. Face masks have been shown to be effective at filtering out viruses such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, thereby reducing the risk of infection. A team of researchers from MIT now hopes to go one step further and create a mask that inactivates viruses using heat. The researchers aim to build masks that incorporate a heated...

Bringing construction projects to the digital world

October 21, 2020

People who work behind a computer screen all day take it for granted that everyone’s work will be tracked and accessible when they collaborate with others. But if your job takes place out in the real world, managing projects can require a lot more effort. In construction, for example, general contractors and real estate developers often need someone to be physically present on a job site to verify work is done correctly and on time. They might also rely...

Translating lost languages using machine learning

October 21, 2020

Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost, or “undeciphered” — that is, we don’t know enough about their grammar, vocabulary, or syntax to be able to actually understand their texts. Lost languages are more than a mere academic curiosity; without them, we miss an entire body of knowledge about the people who spoke them. Unfortunately, most of them have such minimal...

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