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A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

https://news.mit.edu/2023/carbon-lite-atmosphere-life-terrestrial-planets-mit-study-1228

Does “food as medicine” make a big dent in diabetes?

https://news.mit.edu/2023/food-medicine-diabetes-study-1227

Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity

https://news.mit.edu/2023/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-1222

Leveraging language to understand machines

https://news.mit.edu/2023/leveraging-language-understand-machines-1222

Carlo Ratti named curator of 2025 Venice Biennale Architecure Exhibition

https://news.mit.edu/2023/carlo-ratti-named-curator-venice-biennale-architecure-exhibition-1222

Neveen El Tahri: Confronting the Challenges of a Male-Dominated Business Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-XDCtyBOc4

Adenike Ogunlesi: Upholding the Social Responsibility of Entrepreneurship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa5mDUItE1s

Institute Professor Emeritus Robert Solow, pathbreaking economist, dies at age 99

https://news.mit.edu/2023/institute-professor-emeritus-robert-solow-dies-1222

MIT’s top research stories of 2023

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mits-top-research-stories-1221

MIT community in 2023: A year in review

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-community-year-in-review-1221

MIT in the media: 2023 in review

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-media-year-in-review-1221

Minicourse open to the MIT community gives context to the Middle East crisis

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-minicourse-gives-context-middle-east-crisis-1221

Professor Emeritus Frederick Hennie, expert in computation and leader within MIT EECS, dies at 90

https://news.mit.edu/2023/frederick-hennie-dies-1220

Paul Parravano, longtime liaison to elected leaders and MIT’s neighbors, dies at 71

https://news.mit.edu/2023/paul-parravano-longtime-liaison-dies-1220

Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates

https://news.mit.edu/2023/using-ai-mit-researchers-identify-antibiotic-candidates-1220

A flexible solution to help artists improve animation

https://news.mit.edu/2023/flexible-solution-help-artists-improve-animation-1220

The science and art of complex systems

https://news.mit.edu/2023/gosha-geogdzhayev-climate-modeling-1220

Study: Colon cancer screenings are more effective than previously understood

https://news.mit.edu/2023/study-colon-cancer-screenings-are-more-effective-1219

Navy officer deepens her engineering and leadership skills at MIT

https://news.mit.edu/2023/navy-officer-deepens-engineering-leadership-skills-asia-allison-1219

MIT’s tiny technologies go to Washington

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-tiny-technologies-go-to-washington-1218

Generative AI Shaping The Future Keynote: Rodney Brooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgrzEHJTPPM

Generative AI Shaping The Future: Opening Remarks by President Kornbluth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9WYhdCb7U

Nanoparticle-delivered RNA reduces neuroinflammation in lab tests

https://news.mit.edu/2023/nanoparticle-delivered-rna-reduces-neuroinflammation-lab-tests-1215

“MIT can give you ‘superpowers’”

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-can-give-you-superpowers-1215

Image recognition accuracy: An unseen challenge confounding today’s AI

https://news.mit.edu/2023/image-recognition-accuracy-minimum-viewing-time-metric-1215

Philip Erickson named director of MIT Haystack Observatory

https://news.mit.edu/2023/philip-erickson-named-director-mit-haystack-observatory-1215

Computational model captures the elusive transition states of chemical reactions

https://news.mit.edu/2023/computational-model-captures-elusive-transition-states-1215

AI meets climate: MIT Energy and Climate Hack 2023

https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-meets-climate-mit-energy-climate-hack-1214

2.009 gets “Wild!”

https://news.mit.edu/2023/2009-gets-wild-1214

LIFT Program helps Cambridge youth become tomorrow’s changemakers

https://news.mit.edu/2023/lift-program-cambridge-youth-tomorrows-changemakers-1214

Three MIT students selected as inaugural MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows

https://news.mit.edu/2023/inaugural-mit-pillar-ai-collective-fellows-1213

Angela Belcher delivers 2023 Dresselhaus Lecture on evolving organisms for new nanomaterials

https://news.mit.edu/2023/angela-belcher-delivers-dresselhaus-lecture-1213

Deep neural networks show promise as models of human hearing

https://news.mit.edu/2023/deep-neural-nets-show-promise-models-of-human-hearing-1213

Satellite-based method measures carbon in peat bogs

https://news.mit.edu/2023/satellite-based-method-measures-carbon-peat-bogs-1213

Closing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices

https://news.mit.edu/2023/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devices-1213

Ronald Garcia Ruiz named a Popular Science “Brilliant 10”

https://news.mit.edu/2023/ronald-garcia-ruiz-popular-science-brilliant-ten-1212

MIT campus goals in food, water, waste support decarbonization efforts

https://news.mit.edu/2023/campus-goals-food-water-waste-support-decarbonization-efforts-1212

How to be an astronaut

https://news.mit.edu/2023/how-be-astronaut-woody-hoburg-1212

A computer scientist pushes the boundaries of geometry

https://news.mit.edu/2023/justin-solomon-pushing-geometric-boundaries-1212

MIT researchers observe a hallmark quantum behavior in bouncing droplets

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-researchers-observe-hallmark-quantum-behavior-1212

3 Questions: Darrell Irvine on making HIV vaccines more powerful

https://news.mit.edu/2023/darrell-irvine-making-hiv-vaccines-more-powerful-1212

Boosting faith in the authenticity of open source software

https://news.mit.edu/2023/speranza-boosting-faith-authenticity-open-source-software-1211

MIT Generative AI Week fosters dialogue across disciplines

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-generative-ai-week-fosters-dialogue-across-disciplines-1211

Wharton Executive Education Answers Executive Demand with the launch of Generative AI and Business Transformation

https://news.wharton.upenn.edu/press-releases/2023/12/wharton-executive-education-answers-executive-demand-with-the-launch-of-generative-ai-and-business-transformation/

Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars

https://news.mit.edu/2023/anushree-chaudhuri-rupert-li-marshall-scholars-1211

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations (PRIMO)

https://youtu.be/Mbr1aG-EOY0?si=FJ4utSTjrCWmo6qc

MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-group-releases-white-papers-governance-ai-1211

Scientists 3D print self-heating microfluidic devices

https://news.mit.edu/2023/scientists-3d-print-self-heating-microfluidic-devices-1211

Breakerspace illuminates the mysteries of materials

https://news.mit.edu/2023/breakerspace-illuminates-mysteries-materials-1208

Remembering Professor Judy Hoyt, a pioneer in semiconductor research

 https://news.mit.edu/2023/remembering-professor-judy-hoyt-1208

Miranda McClellan ’18, MEng ’19 awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarship

https://news.mit.edu/2023/miranda-mcclellan-awarded-schwarzman-scholarship-1208

Researchers safely integrate fragile 2D materials into devices

https://news.mit.edu/2023/researchers-safely-integrate-fragile-2d-materials-devices-1208

Automated system teaches users when to collaborate with an AI assistant

https://news.mit.edu/2023/automated-system-teaches-collaborate-ai-assistant-1208

From MIT to Singapore and back: Delivering knowledge and advancing careers in finance

https://news.mit.edu/2023/advancing-finance-careers-hong-ru-1207

MIT students win Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sustainability award

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-students-win-sustainability-award-1207

MIT engineers develop a way to determine how the surfaces of materials behave

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-engineers-how-surfaces-materials-behave-1207

Accelerated climate action needed to sharply reduce current risks to life and life-support systems

https://news.mit.edu/2023/accelerated-climate-action-needed-sharply-reduce-current-risks-1206

President Kornbluth's opening statement for the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce

https://news.mit.edu/2023/president-kornbluth-opening-statement-us-house-committee-1206

Eric Evans to step down as director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory

https://news.mit.edu/2023/eric-evans-steps-down-director-lincoln-laboratory-1206

Chemists create organic molecules in a rainbow of colors

https://news.mit.edu/2023/chemists-create-organic-molecules-rainbow-colors-1205

AI accelerates problem-solving in complex scenarios

https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-accelerates-problem-solving-complex-scenarios-1205

MIT Women’s League fosters connections and community around campus

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-womens-league-fosters-community-1205

How a mutation in microglia elevates Alzheimer’s risk

https://news.mit.edu/2023/how-mutation-microglia-elevates-alzheimers-risk-1204

The eyes have it

 https://news.mit.edu/2023/eyes-have-it-frankel-1204

3Q: Melissa Nobles on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia

https://news.mit.edu/2023/3q-melissa-nobles-combating-antisemitism-and-islamophobia-1204

3 Questions: Laura Beretsky on living and learning with epilepsy

https://news.mit.edu/2023/laura-beretsky-book-seizing-control-1204

Unlocking the secrets of natural materials

https://news.mit.edu/2023/benedetto-marelli-silk-based-technologies-1203

Explained: The sugar coating of life

https://news.mit.edu/2023/explained-glycoscience-carbohydrates-1201

3 Questions: Wiebke Denecke on a landmark project for Chinese literature

https://news.mit.edu/2023/wiebke-denecke-landmark-project-chinese-literature-1201

A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mineral-produced-plate-tectonics-global-cooling-effect-1130

Immune action at a distance

https://news.mit.edu/2023/immune-action-distance-1130