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  Understanding going under

  By unlocking the secrets of anesthesia, Professor Emery Brown could help shed light on brain diseases, hibernation, and possibly even human consciousness.
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  The numbers that couldn’t be ignored

  In 1994, Professor Nancy Hopkins and 15 other tenured women in the School of Science set in motion a deep data dive that got MIT to recognize and finally address widespread discrimination against women on the faculty.
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  The rogue vintner of Manhattan

  A winemaker with a surprising backstory, Latif Jiji ’52 has run New York City’s sole vineyard as a backyard hobby for more than 30 years.
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   Blowing in benefits

  Tweaking US wind energy strategy could quadruple the positive impact on public health, a new study finds.
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  A new tool to swap out faulty genes

  Based on CRISPR, the technique holds potential for treating a variety of diseases.
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  Limits of climate change

  A “stabilizing feedback” mechanism acts to keep global temperatures in check—but not fast enough to help us.
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  A black hole jet pointing right at us

  The intensely bright light, halfway across the universe, could help us understand how supermassive black holes grow.
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  Automation drives income inequality

  Blame self-checkouts, assembly-line robots, and similar technology for most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980.
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  How brains keep learning

  The key may be that immature neural connections persist in adults, making it possible to form new memories and absorb new information.

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