How a butterfly’s scales are born
A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales, like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A
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Not just another band from Boston
In 1976, Tom Scholz ’69, SM ’70, was a 29-year-old product design engineer working at Polaroid on audio electronics and
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Transformative spaces
MIT people often find their greatest moments of inspiration in each other’s company. And two big, beautiful additions to West
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In molecules, one chemist sees art
One Tuesday morning this past January, So Young Lee walked into a lab on the fourth floor of Building 18
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This is MIT and yes, we have bananas
Attending lectures and movies in 26-100 has been an integral part of the MIT experience for generations of students, but
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A hundred years of curiosity
Any facet of Josef Eisinger’s remarkably wide-ranging century of life would be enough to shape the entire identity of another
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The Download: Falcon 9’s future, and Big Tech’s climate goals
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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Recent books from the MIT community
Sparking Creativity: How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and DesignBy Barry Kudrowitz, SM ’06, PhD ’10ROUTLEDGE, 2023, $39.95 Open Building
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Sweat may protect against Lyme disease
Most people’s sweat contains a protein that can prevent Lyme disease, researchers at MIT and the University of Helsinki have
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