Features

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  Tackling long-haul diseases

  Long-haul covid and chronic Lyme disease are surprisingly similar. MIT immunoengineer Mikki Tal is on the case.
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  The robots are coming. And that’s a good thing.

  MIT's Daniela Rus isn’t worried that robots will take over the world. Instead, she envisions robots and humans teaming up to achieve things that neither could do alone. 
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  I’m a beaver.
  You’re a beaver.
  We are beavers all.

  Amazing facts about MIT’s ingenious mascot.
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  Divine economics

  For Allison V. Thompkins, PhD ’11, economics and spirituality are complementary pursuits, shaped by an expansive understanding of disability.
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  Tapping into MIT’s strengths

  The Institute’s superpower is its ability to make the world better. We’re harnessing that now to improve both the world and MIT.
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  Illuminating the life of a cell

  By tagging molecules in a cell with fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study their interaction to learn more about how cells operate.
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  New insights on political polarization

  Media might deepen partisan divides, but we should measure reading habits more carefully before drawing conclusions—and avoid assuming that our own thought processes are the only rational ones.
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  Self-heating microfluidics from a 3D printer

  A cheap one-step process produces miniature chemical reactors that could be used to detect diseases or analyze substances.
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  Armor for microbial fertilizers

  A coating that protects nitrogen-fixing bacteria from heat and humidity would make them easier to use in place of agricultural chemicals.
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  What’s blue to you

  Amazonian people whose language lacks separate words for blue and green began interpreting colors in a new way when they learned Spanish.
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  Recent books from the MIT community

  March/April 2024

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