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Geologists raise the speed limit for how...

October 5, 2020

Although we can’t see it in action, the Earth is constantly churning out new land. This takes place at subduction zones, where tectonic plates crush against each other and in the process plow up chains of volcanos that magma can rise through. Some of this magma does not spew out, but instead mixes and morphs just below the surface. It then crystallizes as new continental crust, in the form of a mountain range. Scientists have thought that the Earth’s...

J-PAL North America launches MIT Roybal Center...

October 5, 2020

With support from the National Institute on Aging, J-PAL North America, a research center in the MIT Department of Economics, recently launched the MIT Roybal Center for Translational Research to Improve Health Care for the Aging. The center will support randomized evaluations of low-cost, high-impact behavioral interventions to improve health-care delivery and health outcomes for older adults in the United States. According to the National Council on Aging, more than 25 million Americans over the age of 60 are...

MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa...

October 5, 2020

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK), the nation’s oldest academic honor society, held its MIT induction ceremony this year admitting 115 graduating seniors into the MIT chapter, Xi of Massachusetts. PBK, founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, honors the nation’s most outstanding undergraduate students for excellence in the liberal arts, which includes the humanities and the natural and social science fields. In addition to extraordinary students with liberal arts majors, PBK honors engineering students who have...

Turning diamond into metal

October 5, 2020

Long known as the hardest of all natural materials, diamonds are also exceptional thermal conductors and electrical insulators. Now, researchers have discovered a way to tweak tiny needles of diamond in a controlled way to transform their electronic properties, dialing them from insulating, through semiconducting, all the way to highly conductive, or metallic. This can be induced dynamically and reversed at will, with no degradation of the diamond material. The research, though still at an early proof-of-concept stage, may...

Nanoparticles can turn off genes in bone...

October 5, 2020

Using specialized nanoparticles, MIT engineers have developed a way to turn off specific genes in cells of the bone marrow, which play an important role in producing blood cells. These particles could be tailored to help treat heart disease or to boost the yield of stem cells in patients who need stem cell transplants, the researchers say. This type of genetic therapy, known as RNA interference, is usually difficult to target to organs other than the liver, where nanoparticles...

How we make moral decisions

October 2, 2020

Imagine that one day you’re riding the train and decide to hop the turnstile to avoid paying the fare. It probably won’t have a big impact on the financial well-being of your local transportation system. But now ask yourself, “What if everyone did that?” The outcome is much different — the system would likely go bankrupt and no one would be able to ride the train anymore. Moral philosophers have long believed this type of reasoning, known as universalization,...

Glen Shor named executive vice president and...

October 2, 2020

The MIT Corporation today elected Glen Shor to the role of executive vice president and treasurer, effective immediately. He has served as the Institute’s vice president for finance since 2015. Shor succeeds Israel Ruiz, who stepped down earlier this year. The executive vice president and treasurer (EVPT) leads the administrative and financial functions at MIT, working with the president, the Corporation, and members of MIT’s senior leadership team to support the Institute’s academic mission of education and research. Since...

MIT researchers and collaborators work to prepare...

October 2, 2020

At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the state of Massachusetts assembled a manufacturing emergency response team as part of its efforts to respond to the desperate need for personal protective equipment (PPE), particularly masks and gowns. The Massachusetts Emergency Response Team (M-ERT) — aided by MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni — helped local manufacturers produce more than 9 million pieces of PPE as well as large volumes of hand sanitizer, disinfectants, and test swabs. Building on the...

A champion of renewable energy

October 2, 2020

It’s an amazing moment when a topic learned in the classroom comes to life. For senior Darya Guettler, that moment came on a sweltering day while installing solar panels in low-income communities in Los Angeles, alongside workers who had been previously incarcerated. Guettler was volunteering with an MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, an organization that supports formerly incarcerated individuals through career opportunities in green energy. Drilling the panels into the...

Helping companies navigate Covid-19

October 1, 2020

In his new book “The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19,” published today, MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi explains how companies grappled with the chaos of the Covid-19 pandemic and how they can survive and thrive as the crisis subsides. Sheffi pays particular attention to supply chains’ role in helping companies manage and recover from the pandemic. “Much has been written about the pandemic, but the book takes a different perspective by showing how the virus...

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins 2020 Spanish Royal Physics...

October 1, 2020

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, was honored with the highest scientific recognition of the Spanish Royal Physics Society (RSEF) for his pioneering experimental work on “twistronics,” a promising technique for adjusting the electronic properties of graphene by rotating adjacent layers of the material. The RSEF medal recognizes Jarillo-Herrero’s “exceptional and groundbreaking work on twisted heterostructures (graphene on hBN and twisted bilayer graphene) and, specifically, his discovery of correlated insulating behavior and unconventional superconductivity...

Cancer researchers collaborate, target DNA damage repair...

October 1, 2020

Cancer therapies that target specific molecular defects arising from mutations in tumor cells are currently the focus of much anticancer drug development. However, due to the absence of good targets and to the genetic variation in tumors, platinum-based chemotherapies are still the mainstay in the treatment of many cancers, including those that have a mutated version of the tumor suppressor gene p53. P53 is mutated in a majority of cancers, which enables tumor cells to develop resistance to platinum-based...

SMART researchers receive Intra-CREATE grant for personalized...

October 1, 2020

Researchers from Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP), an interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have been awarded Intra-CREATE grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore to help support research on retinal biometrics for glaucoma progression and neural cell implantation therapy for spinal cord injuries. The grants are part of the NRF’s initiative to bring together researchers from Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE) partner institutions,...

Anticipating heart failure with machine learning

October 1, 2020

Every year, roughly one out of eight U.S. deaths is caused at least in part by heart failure. One of acute heart failure’s most common warning signs is excess fluid in the lungs, a condition known as “pulmonary edema.” A patient’s exact level of excess fluid often dictates the doctor’s course of action, but making such determinations is difficult and requires clinicians to rely on subtle features in X-rays that sometimes lead to inconsistent diagnoses and treatment plans. To better...

Antarctic sea ice may not cap carbon...

October 1, 2020

The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica is a region where many of the world’s carbon-rich deep waters can rise back up to the surface. Scientists have thought that the vast swaths of sea ice around Antarctica can act as a lid for upwelling carbon, preventing the gas from breaking through the ocean’s surface and returning to the atmosphere. However, researchers at MIT have now identified a counteracting effect that suggests Antarctic sea ice may not be as powerful a control...

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