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  Inventing soft things to solve hard problems

  Xuanhe Zhao’s work with hydrogels marries engineering and medicine.
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  Automating cell therapy

  Multiply Labs’ robotic clusters could ease major bottlenecks in the production of drugs for intractable diseases.
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  5 MIT patents that changed computing

  Few patents actually change the world, but these did.
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  Ideas in abundance

  When you dare MIT people to solve a hard problem like climate change, a lot of them will take you up on it.
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  When babies see faces

  New data shows that brain regions in infants just a few months old are specialized for faces, bodies, or scenes.
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  Low-carbon construction

  A new emissions analysis could help determine whether a building project should use timber or steel.
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  Social life in the Jurassic

  Fossils indicate that dinosaurs may have lived in cooperative herds as early as 193 million years ago.
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  Drugs from within

  A coating that shields microbes from oxygen could make it easier for gut bacteria to be used as disease treatments.
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  Economic migrants

  A new report finds that material needs are the main motive for immigration from Central America to the US.
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  Making insurance healthier

  An experiment in Indonesia offers insights into what it takes to get people to participate in national health plans.
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  Defending shorelines

  Marsh plants provide significant protection to coastal areas threatened by climate change. An MIT analysis shows how it works.
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  Shirley McBay, 1935-2021

  The onetime MIT dean fought to bring more students from underrepresented groups into STEM fields.

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