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Ten Years of SuperUROP at MIT: A Decade of Reflection and Achievement
The Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or SuperUROP, is celebrating a significant milestone: 10 years of setting careers in motion.
Originally mapped out by Dean Anantha Chandrakasan (then the head of the Department…
Empowering Local Communities for Global Collaboration: The City Science Network’s Mission
The City Science group at the MIT Media Lab, directed by Principal Research Scientist Kent Larson, launched the City Science Network nine years ago to create sister labs around the world that could share data, code, design ideas, and…
AI-Powered Optimization for Accelerated Neural Imaging
Connectomics, the ambitious field of study that seeks to map the intricate network of animal brains, is undergoing a growth spurt. Within the span of a decade, it has journeyed from its nascent stages to a discipline that is poised to…
Empowering Artisanal Women Miners in Colombia: MIT D-Lab’s Mission
In Colombia, approximately 60 percent of gold extraction originates from an informal sector known as artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Among them are “las chatarreras,” women who arrive early in the morning at the mines to scavenge and…
MIT Study Reveals Amazonian Society Adapts New Color Interpretations After Learning Spanish as a…
The human eye can perceive about 1 million colors, but languages have far fewer words to describe those colors. So-called basic color terms, single color words used frequently by speakers of a given language, are often employed to gauge how…
MIT Energy Initiative’s Annual Research Conference Spotlights Strategies for Large-Scale…
The world in recent years has largely been moving on from debates about the need to curb carbon emissions and focusing more on action — the development, implementation, and deployment of the technological, economic, and policy measures to…
E-commerce Marketplace Aims to Drive Growth in Latin America
Today, people in countries like the United States take it for granted that they can press a button on their phone and receive nearly any product at their front door the next day. But people living in rural parts of lower-income countries…
Major Breakthrough: Physicists Successfully Trap Electrons in a 3D Crystal for the First Time
Electrons move through a conducting material like commuters at the height of Manhattan rush hour. The charged particles may jostle and bump against each other, but for the most part they’re unconcerned with other electrons as they hurtle…
CEPI and University of Oxford advance vaccine work against potentially deadly Arenaviruses
CEPI will provide up to $25 million to the University of Oxford to complete early development of prototype vaccines against the Junín virus, while also looking to improve manufacturing speed and scale-up of ChAdOx technology…
New research finds that nature-based solutions are essential for Brazil to meet its 2050 net zero…
A new study has concluded that any credible net zero pathway for Brazil must include the implementation of nature-based solutions.
Actions such as halting deforestation and large-scale restoration of native vegetation would have…