Features

• Categorized in MIT News: Cover story

  Skywatcher

  An avid reader of detective novels, Andrea Ghez ’87 turned galactic sleuth to expose the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: Feature story

  Looking to space to cure osteoarthritis

  Osteoarthritis affects hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Alan Grodzinsky, ’71, ScD ’74, wants to end their pain.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: Feature story

  The power of simple innovations

  MIT D-Lab’s Ta Corrales ’16 is helping people around the world create simple tools that can improve their lives—and often boost their local economies.

  
• Categorized in From the president

  SHASS steps up

  Our faculty in the social sciences and humanities played a key role in illuminating the wide-ranging impacts of the pandemic and offering practical guidance to improve electoral practices nationwide.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

  Stop the bleeding

  A biocompatible glue modeled on the substance that lets barnacles cling to rocks can seal bloody wounds in seconds.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

  Out of the frying pan

  A phenomenon seen in oily skillets could have useful applications.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

  Mind and magnet

  With a system that uses magnetic beads to measure muscle position, amputees could make prosthetic limbs move just the way they’ve envisioned.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

  Location, location, location

  Moving to a new area can significantly affect how long you live, a study of Medicare data reveals.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

  Sleep on this

  A field experiment suggests that a longer night’s sleep doesn’t necessarily improve your life.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

  3D-printed materials that sense your actions

  Input devices created this way could be easily tailored to individual needs.

  
• Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

  Mimicking the pancreas

  Using a new type of gel, researchers have grown “organoids” from healthy and cancerous pancreatic cells.

  

• Have an idea for a great MIT story?

  ---

  If you know of any MIT alumni making a difference in their corner of the planet, let us know. We always welcome your ideas for interesting stories about the MIT community.

  Share your stories