Helping move medical research out of the lab and into the clinic
“Everyone always says to me, ‘You’re working on the cure for cancer,’” says Elizabeth C. Ng, CEO of Ocean Biomedical. But cancer isn’t a single target, as she knows all too well. | MIT News | February 2024
Data Feed: How Gro Intelligence is fighting world hunger with tech
“One of my colleagues was buying guns and gold as a way to protect himself from the world collapsing,” recalls Gro founder Sara Menker. “And I was like, Listen, if the world’s collapsing, I just want to eat.” | Columbia Magazine | January 2024
A new study says the global toll of lead exposure is even worse than we thought
Lead poisoning’s most widely publicized health impact is IQ loss in children. But lead’s pernicious effects don’t stop in childhood nor at the brain. | NPR | October 2023
A satellite expert samples life on Mars
Humans have yet to bake bread on the Red Planet, but the Aerospace Corporation’s Barbara Braun has come closer than most. | MIT News | October 2023
Literary device
Come to LitMT for the machine-translated novels; stay for the opportunity to help improve them. | UMass Magazine | October 2023
A tight-knit technical staff with 400 combined years of expertise
“You don’t take your car apart just to learn how it works. You do that when something goes wrong — and gain a deeper understanding of the machine each time.” | MIT.nano | June 2023
Kids provide a window into the nature of conversation
Experts in early language development corroborate a long-debated theory about presupposed content in sentences. | MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | March 2023
Science for everyone
As cohosts of NPR’s Short Wave, Emily Kwong and Aaron Scott explore everything from the chemistry of coffee to the physics of sand castles to the biology of sweating. | Columbia Magazine | January 2023
On the record
The inaugural Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice conference explored video’s role in the struggle over truth and civil liberties. | MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | November 2022
Did you get anything done today? Thank cognitive control
What neuroscientist David Badre really wants to know is: How does your brain steer you through all the tiny steps from thought to action? | Slice of MIT | January 2021
The key to AI for medicine: letting doctors see how it works
Imagine you’re a physician deciding whether to perform emergency surgery. Now, imagine a computer could tell you the percent likelihood of patient survival. Are you comfortable basing your decision on that number? | Slice of MIT | August 2019
The new robot in school [PDF]
Meet Tega, the fuzzy friend who tells stories to kids. | MIT Spectrum | Fall 2017