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  Putting ideas into action

  MIT’s new chancellor laid a foundation for leadership through her groundbreaking research on politics and racial justice.
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  Better democracy through technology

  Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
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  The work of the future

  Building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines.
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  A maker mindset

  Not all the tools we develop at MIT are physical—but that does not diminish their power and potential.
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  Another economics Nobel

  MIT labor economist Joshua Angrist was honored for his work on “natural experiments” that make the field more empirically rigorous.
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  David Julius ’77 wins Nobel

  The MIT grad shared the prize for discoveries about the nervous system.
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  Planetary smashup

  Astronomers found compelling evidence for a type of giant collision never directly observed.
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  The pointiest path

  The shortest route between two points is a straight line, but your brain may have other priorities.
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  Coaching from clothing

  Fibers that act as artificial muscles could help singers, athletes, and others learn to control their breathing.
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  A new angle on immunotherapy

  Cancer cells injured by chemotherapy can be harnessed to unleash the immune system against tumors in mice.
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  A robot to find lost stuff

  Isn’t this what we all need?
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  A gene that keeps the brain sharp?

  New findings may help explain why mental stimulation makes Alzheimer’s and age-related dementia less likely.

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