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  Tackling covid

  MIT researchers have always been drawn to urgent, life-or-death problems. The pandemic is keeping them busy.

  
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  That chatbot I’ve loved to hate

  In quarantine, we see the emptiness of pretend empathy.

  
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  Dismantling the racist mindset

  Making MIT welcoming to Black students begins with teaching our children to be antiracist— and learning how ourselves.

  
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  The Minecraft Institvte of Technology

  When undergrads had to leave MIT in March, they built a virtual replica of the campus online.

  
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  Virtual Tech Challenge

  
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  Standing together

  The Institute must do more to combat systemic racism and injustice.

  
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  New antibodies in just months

  A faster way to develop immune-stimulating drugs has yielded a potential treatment for yellow fever and holds promise for covid-19.

  
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  A strange rhythm in space

  Astronomers have detected a pattern of radio-wave bursts emanating from the outskirts of a distant galaxy.

  
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  Brain on a chip

  A new design for artificial synapses could lead to small, portable AI devices.

  
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  Which businesses should be open?

  MIT economists analyzed a vast array of data to inform more rational decisions about managing the covid economy.

  
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  Peat’s Sake

  Satellite imaging documents the environmentally devastating loss of Southeast Asia’s peatlands.

  
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  Stiff roads save fuel

  Simple paving changes could significantly reduce emissions from trucking.

  
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  Pandemic. Inequality. Isolation.

  The MIT community takes on the challenges of our time.

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