ENGINEERING IN ACTION
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Building communities, founding a startup with people in mind
MIT postdoc Francesco Benedetti admits he wasn’t always a star student. But the people he met along his educational journey inspired him to strive, which led him to conduct research at MIT, launch a startup, and even lead the team that won the 2021 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Now he is determined to make sure his company, Osmoses, succeeds […] -
Launchpad for healthcare entrepreneurs
When Computation and Systems Biology PhD student Elvira Kinzina was diagnosed with Lyme disease during her first year at MIT, she struggled to find a doctor specializing in the disease – even though Boston is renowned for its thriving healthcare community. She soon found out this was common for Lyme patients, with many specialists booked […] -
Brave Behind Bars: Prison education program focuses on computing skills for women
A programming language textbook might not be the first thing you’d expect to see when walking into a correctional facility. -
Compassionate mentorship both inside and outside the lab
Although his professional expertise lies in developing chemical catalysts, MIT Visiting Professor Karthish Manthiram also makes sure to catalyze positive relationships with his graduate students. -
Student, Alum Team Up to Combat Covid
“One of the reasons I like to interview for MIT is to be inspired—and maybe inspire a little bit back,” says George Hu ’89, a former Microsoft developer and creator of the language used for macros in Microsoft Excel. Hu says interviewing MIT applicants in his native Seattle is one way he stays connected to […]
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Ask an Engineer
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Can global warming be reversed?
It is getting warmer out there, and it isn’t an easy problem to solve…
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How did life on Earth begin?
It started in the depths of the ocean. Or maybe underneath the ice caps…
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How were we able to navigate from the Earth to the Moon with such precision?
Before the days of GPS, engineers had to rely on good old fashioned computation…
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Is sleep necessary?
Yes — that’s where memories are built
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Why hasn’t commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?
In an era when everything else is accelerating, airplanes are actually flying at slower speeds than they used to…
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What are thoughts made of?
They’re really just electro-chemical reactions—but the number and complexity of these reactions make them hard to fully understand…
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How does a jet engine work?
A lot more efficiently than it used to. Read on…
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Why does structural behavior change in different types of soil?
There’s a recipe for getting it right, depending on what you need…