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An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic microbeads

The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-lasting microplastics that threaten the environment.

A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera. These are just a few of the seemingly

Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English. If anything, they’re more likely

Microbes that gobble up or break down environmental toxins can clean up oil spills, waste sites, and contaminated watersheds. But

Gloria Zhu ’26 and Lee Liu ’26 set out to make a calligraphy machine during IAP 2024. They built its

“We meet in the name of Osiris.” With these words, solemnly intoned, members of the MIT Osiris Society began their

What if construction materials could be put together, taken apart, and reused as easily as Lego bricks? That’s the vision

“I’m moving to Boston in three weeks!” At my high school graduation, I had just learned I’d been accepted into

When I last wrote to you in this magazine, I told you a bit about the MIT Collaboratives, an effort