The latest hack on MIT's Great Dome was a golden ring to mark tomorrow's opening of the movie "Fellowship of the Ring." The ring bears an inscription (in book author J.R.R. Tolkien's "elvish" language) that translates as "one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on December 19, 2001.
MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has developed an electrically conductive firebrick that stores heat at high enough temperatures to power industrial processes.
By examining antigen architectures, MIT researchers built a therapeutic cancer vaccine that may improve tumor response to immune checkpoint blockade treatments.