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Barry Duncan is a master palindromist who has been honing his craft for decades. He’s a bookseller at the MIT Press Bookstore, but when not surrounded by words for his job, he’s busy working words into two-way prose to the delight of many.
A team of scientists, engineers, and designers embark on an Arctic expedition to test space technology. The MIT Space Exploration Initiative expedition in Svalbard was not simply a space analog mission, but an experience to learn how to help enable better access to remote regions from the far corners of planet Earth, to the Moon and Mars.
With the start of the spring semester, Commencement is on the horizon for MIT seniors. Recent alumna Elissa Gibson, SB’22, who double-majored in Course 16 (aerospace engineering) and Course 9 (brain and cognitive sciences) reflects on her undergraduate experience.
MIT’s long-running programming competition, Battlecode, invites participants from around the world to write code to program entire armies – not just individual bots – before they duke it out on screen.
On Sept. 26, 2022, a box-shaped spacecraft no bigger than a loveseat smashed directly into an asteroid wider than a football field. The planned impact knocked the space rock off its orbit, showing for the first time that an asteroid can potentially be deflected away from Earth.
MIT engineers have developed a procedure to 3D print a soft and flexible replica of a patients heart that they can then control its action to mimic that patient's blood-pumping ability. The soft-robotic models could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.