3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (612+ words) Thomas Rose, an assistant professor of materials science, died on Sept. 2 due to injuries sustained in a bicycle accident. Rose was 37. Rose was struck by a car on his bicycle at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Avenue around…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (598+ words) Susumu Tonegawa, an MIT Professor of Biology and Neuroscience and founding director of the Picower Institute, died on July 11 at his home in California. He was 86. A molecular biologist who reshaped immunology and, later, neuroscience, Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (24+ words) The Tech Figure 3. The quarter circle visualization for the calculation of c....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (218+ words) A while back, I applied for something and wrote the following essay (details tweaked): Prompt: You get $6,767 to do something that isn’t meant to make profit. What would you do with it and why? A summary and further thoughts In…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (228+ words) Part of what makes preventing metastatic relapse so difficult is that researchers do not fully understand how it happens. The awakening of cancer cells was once thought to be a random, autonomous process. However, a study led by Jingwei Zhang,…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (700+ words) Although Kaplan has written about science for a number of years, it wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic that he seriously considered devoting a book to “dysfunction in the scientific community." In 2020, Kaplan focused on covering the pandemic, asking scientists for…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (303+ words) How does one define consciousness? The answer depends on whom you ask. For a doctor, consciousness requires a person to stay awake and have a sense of awareness. For a writer, though, consciousness is an individual’s interior experience. Science journalist…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago   (675+ words) It’s Friday night, and a loud clanging noise can be heard from the ground floor of Simmons Hall. A group of MIT students and affiliates is hard at work performing a monumental experiment. The clanging is coming from the final…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (335+ words) The Tech Vitale: “The more I see, the more I see how deeply connected we all are to life” Vitale began by discussing the title of the talk, which was “Wild Hope.” For Vitale, hope is a resistance to “cruelty…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (848+ words) On Dec. 8, 2025, the Institute launched its MIT Quantum Initiative (QMIT) with a daylong conference that spearheaded quantum-focused collaboration among experts all across campus. The initiative was launched by MIT President Sally Kornbluth in August with the goal of harnessing quantum…...