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Emma Bullock smiles while near the back of a boat and wearing waterproof gear, with the ocean and sky in background.

Spotlight: Apr 19, 2024

PhD student Emma Bullock studies the impacts of changing mineral levels in Arctic groundwater. “Even though I am doing foundational science, I can link it directly to communities in that region that are going to be impacted by the changes that we are seeing,” she says.

Apr 19, 2024

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Via @misti_japan on Instagram: “Perfect day for a #hanami MIT-Japan Program’s Japanese Lunch Table next to the Charles River!”
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For more open and equitable public discussions on social media, try “meronymity,” researchers suggest. They found platforms whose users reveal only certain verified aspects of their identity empowered less confident participants to speak up.
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IN THE MEDIA

The Boston Globe featured the “AI: Mind the Gap” exhibition at the MIT Museum, which it said “explores the social, cultural, and political implications of deepfakes and other forms of generative AI.”
A diagram shows a box of rows of long silver tubes stacked on top of each other. Tiny brown objects representing carbon nanotubes are in between the layers. An inset enlarges the brown objects and they are an array of tree-like scaffolding.
RESEARCH NEWS

​​In an approach they call “nanostitching,” engineers used carbon nanotubes to prevent cracking in multilayered composite materials. The work “could lead to more resilient aircraft, high-value aerospace structures, and space and military vehicles,” Brian Wardle says.
Team photo of the openweight crew 2V8+ wearing their gold medals they won at the Knecht Cup
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Via @MITAthletics on X: “Congrats to women's openweight crew for claiming the 2V8+ gold medal and the V8+ bronze medal at the Knecht Cup on Sunday!”
Mark Harnett stands with arms crossed in a dark lab lit with red lighting.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Mark Harnett studies the electrical properties of neurons and how they enable neural circuits to perform the computations underlying brain functions such as learning and memory. “My lab’s ultimate goal is to understand how the cortex works,” he says.