The success of the SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle has been one of the most…
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Merging science and systems thinking to make materials more sustainable
For Professor Elsa Olivetti, tackling a problem as large and complex as climate change requires not…
A new wave of treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease, the appalling and baffling degenerative brain illness that plagues many elderly people, may be…
Generating opportunities with generative AI
Talking with retail executives back in 2010, Rama Ramakrishnan came to two realizations. First, although retail…
Designing cleaner vehicles
Adi Mehrotra knew that his time at MIT wasn’t up yet when he finished his undergraduate…
Opening pathways for future supply chain leaders
Sit down with Maria Jesus Saenz of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) to…
Edward Crawley: A career of education, service, and exploration
Arriving as an undergraduate in the 1970s, working through his master’s and doctoral degrees, and then…
Studying cancer in context to stop its growth
Proteins called transcription factors are like molecular traffic cops that tell genes when to stop and…
Future science at the molecular level
Innovating at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and engineering, Professor Brad Pentelute and the Pentelute Lab…
Making life friendlier with personal robots
“As a child, I wished for a robot that would explain others’ emotions to me” says…