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Mining valuable insights from diamonds
Mining valuable insights from diamonds

A drive to understand natural science phenomena ignited MIT graduate student Changhao Li’s love of quantum physics.

MIT engineers boost signals from fluorescent sensors
MIT engineers boost signals from fluorescent sensors

The advance allows the particles to be placed deeper within biological tissue, which could aid with cancer diagnosis or monitoring.

New gels could help the medicine go down
New gels could help the medicine go down

Mixing drugs into oil-based gels could offer relief for children and adults who have trouble swallowing pills.

How the universe got its magnetic field
How the universe got its magnetic field

By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are helping to solve one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields.

New research center focused on brain-body relationship established at MIT
New research center focused on brain-body relationship established at MIT

K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center to investigate the brain’s complex relationship with other body systems.

A helping hand for robotic manipulator design
A helping hand for robotic manipulator design

With modular components and an easy-to-use 3D interface, this interactive design pipeline enables anyone to create their own customized robotic hand.

Toward customizable timber, grown in a lab
Toward customizable timber, grown in a lab

Researchers show they can control the properties of lab-grown plant material, which could enable the production of wood products with little waste.

Emery Brown wins a share of 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
Emery Brown wins a share of 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize

Brown and three other scientists recognized for advancing statistical, theoretical analyses of neuroscience data.

President Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson of Iceland visits MIT
President Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson of Iceland visits MIT

Delegation meets campus leaders, with an eye toward AI applications and the Icelandic language.

MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces recipients of inaugural MCSC Seed Awards
MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces recipients of inaugural MCSC Seed Awards

Twenty winning projects will link industry member priorities with research groups across campus to develop scalable climate solutions.

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