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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

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Commentary: America must invest in its ability...

July 24, 2020

In July of 1945, in an America just beginning to establish a postwar identity, former MIT vice president Vannevar Bush set forth a vision that guided the country to decades of scientific dominance and economic prosperity. Bush’s report to the president of the United States, “Science: The Endless Frontier,” called on the government to support basic research in university labs. Its ideas, including the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF), are credited with helping to make U.S. scientific...

Integrated lightwave electronics

July 23, 2020

Light waves oscillate far faster than most sensors can respond. A solar cell, or the infrared photodetector used to receive the signal from the remote in your DVR, can only sense the total energy delivered by the light — it can’t pick up the subtle details of the rapidly oscillating electric field the light consists of. Essentially all commercial light sensors suffer from this same problem: They act like a microphone that can tell that a crowd of people...

Raoul Ouedraogo and Michael Owen honored with...

July 23, 2020

Each year, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) International presents the Young AFCEA 40 Under 40 Award to individuals who provide innovation and thought leadership in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics field. This year, AFCEA included two Lincoln Laboratory staff members among its awardees: Raoul Ouedraogo and Michael Owen. Raoul Ouedraogo Each summer, when a team of interns earns funding to pursue an original concept they’ve developed in just weeks, Raoul Ouedraogo and his diverse and...

Letter from President Reif: Tackling the grand...

July 23, 2020

The following letter was sent to the MIT community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, I am delighted to share an important step in MIT’s ongoing efforts to take action against climate change. Thanks to the thoughtful leadership of Vice President for Research Maria Zuber, Associate Provost Richard Lester and a committee of 26 faculty leaders representing all five schools and the college, today we are committing to an ambitious new research...

Fellowship is at the heart of emergency...

July 23, 2020

When Amir Bature came to MIT from Bayero University Kano (BUK) in Nigeria as part of the Empowering the Teachers (ETT) program, he was amazed at his shift in perspective during his time on campus. “The first time we arrived at MIT, there were a lot of things where we said ‘no, this is impossible.’ But before we left, it was all possible!” He had no idea that he would soon be applying this mindset to a public health...

MIT launches website to help with captioning...

July 23, 2020

Earlier this year, Provost Martin Schmidt announced the settlement of a lawsuit against MIT brought by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) over the accessibility of MIT online audio and video content to persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. A working group made up of staff from across MIT has now officially launched a new captioning and accessibility website, which includes tools and guidance for the community about how to make existing and future media posted on MIT...

Finch Therapeutics unleashes the power of the...

July 23, 2020

As scients continue searching for treatments to some of the most complex diseases and conditions, they’re increasingly looking to our gut. The human gut microbiome contains trillions of bacteria that play important roles for the proper functioning of our bodies. But those bacterial colonies went relatively unexplored until recently, when new computational tools made it possible to understand their makeup in more detail. Finch Therapeutics is one of a number of companies trying to turn that new perspective into...

Gene-controlling mechanisms play key role in cancer...

July 23, 2020

As cancer cells evolve, many of their genes become overactive while others are turned down. These genetic changes can help tumors grow out of control and become more aggressive, adapt to changing conditions, and eventually lead the tumor to metastasize and spread elsewhere in the body. MIT and Harvard University researchers have now mapped out an additional layer of control that guides this evolution — an array of structural changes to “chromatin,” the mix of proteins, DNA, and RNA...

Engineering superpowered organisms for a more sustainable...

July 22, 2020

Making corn salt-tolerant by engineering its microbiome. Increasing nut productivity with fungal symbiosis. Cleaning up toxic metals in the water supply with algae. Capturing soil nutrient runoff with bacterial biofilms. These were the bio-sustainability innovations designed and presented by students in the Department of Biological Engineering (BE) last May. With the sun shining brightly on an empty Killian Court, the students gathered for the final class presentations over Zoom, physically distanced due to the Covid-19-related closing of MIT’s campus...

Raith joins MIT.nano Consortium

July 22, 2020

MIT.nano has announced that Raith, a company that supports researchers and process engineers in universities and industries worldwide in the fields of nanoscale science, engineering, and device production, has joined the MIT.nano Consortium as the 12th founding member. A precision technology manufacturer for nanofabrication, electron beam lithography, focused ion beam fabrication, and nanoengineering, Raith is a superb fit for the research and researchers supported by MIT.nano, says Vladimir Bulović, the founding faculty director of MIT.nano and the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of...

Chemists make tough plastics recyclable

July 22, 2020

Thermosets, which include epoxies, polyurethanes, and rubber used for tires, are found in many products that have to be durable and heat-resistant, such as cars or electrical appliances. One drawback to these materials is that they typically cannot be easily recycled or broken down after use, because the chemical bonds holding them together are stronger than those found in other materials such as thermoplastics. MIT chemists have now developed a way to modify thermoset plastics with a chemical linker...

Mapping the brain’s sensory gatekeeper

July 22, 2020

Many people with autism experience sensory hypersensitivity, attention deficits, and sleep disruption. One brain region that has been implicated in these symptoms is the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), which is believed to act as a gatekeeper for sensory information flowing to the cortex. A team of researchers from MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has now mapped the TRN in unprecedented detail, revealing that the region contains two distinct subnetworks of neurons with different functions. The...

Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power...

July 22, 2020

As the Covid-19 shutdowns and stay-at-home orders brought much of the world’s travel and commerce to a standstill, people around the world started noticing clearer skies as a result of lower levels of air pollution. Now, researchers have been able to demonstrate that those clearer skies had a measurable impact on the output from solar photovoltaic panels, leading to a more than 8 percent increase in the power output from installations in Delhi. While such an improved output was...

3 Questions: Heather Hendershot on coverage of...

July 21, 2020

Heather Hendershot, professor of comparative media studies, researches conservative media and political movements, film and television genres, and American film history. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, “Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.” She is currently writing a book on media coverage of the Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention. We spoke with Hendershot recently about the great differences in pandemic coverage across different media channels and sources. Q: A...

How to grow a cosmic magnetic field

July 21, 2020

When Muni Zhou looks into a clear night sky, she might be focusing less on the stars and more on what cannot be seen with the eye. The MIT graduate student, now in her fourth year at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), is fascinated by vast magnetic field structures that exist not only around planets like Earth, but beyond the heliosphere to the edges of the universe. How these cosmic magnetic fields originated and evolved is the...

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