Features

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  Tracing a Memory

  Susumu Tonegawa is finding out how the brain stores and retrieves individual memories.

  
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  The Hyperloop Pod Squad

  MIT students worked fast to design an award-winning car for Elon Musk’s high-speed ground transportation concept.

  
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  The Polymath Philanthropist

  Mathematician Jim Simons ’58, founder of a wildly successful hedge fund and a philanthropic foundation, now invests in autism and cosmology research that could prove game-changing.

  
• Categorized in My view

  The Lessons of Flugtag

  You often learn more when things don’t go as planned.
• Categorized in Seen on campus

  20/20 Foresight

  Freshmen kick off their first semester at MIT with a timely hack.

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