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November/December 2021

Andrea Ghez ’87 turned galactic sleuth to expose the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

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Spencer Lowell

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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