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Spotlight: Mar 7, 2024

Patients undergoing chemotherapy often experience memory impairment and difficulty concentrating — a condition commonly known as “chemo brain.” But stimulating gamma brain waves may protect cancer patients from these cognitive effects.

Mar 7, 2024

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Ed Roberts stands with his back to a chalkboard with graphs and notes written on it. He is speaking and pointing with one finger.
IN THE MEDIA

A Boston Globe obituary called Edward Roberts one of New England’s “most influential pioneers in entrepreneurship.” Bill Aulet added: “It’s impossible to go into entrepreneurship, especially in Boston, but even globally, without finding his influences.”
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Before coming to MIT, senior Nicole McGaa thought, “‘Space and medicine are the two things that I really enjoy, I’ll pick one of them eventually.’ But I got to MIT, and I realized by fate that MIT was one of the few places in the world that did space medicine.”
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In the latest episode of Curiosity Unbounded, President Sally Kornbluth talks with designer and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits. The two discuss 4D printing, self-assembling materials, the inspiration for projects, and why design at MIT is unique.
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RESEARCH NEWS

Exposure to different kinds of music influences how the brain interprets rhythm: A study of people in 15 countries reveals that while everyone favors rhythms with simple integer ratios, biases can vary quite a bit across societies.
a gigantic magnet inside a cryostat container perhaps 15 feet long, in a huge, busy lab
CLIMATE ACTION

New tests show that high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion: The detailed study of magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms that they meet the requirements for an economical, compact fusion power plant.
Rendering shows the Perseverance on the rocky brown surface of Mars. The Perseverance resembles a go-cart and has 6 wheels and an arm extending that houses the drill. The top of the Perseverance has a long neck and a camera on top.
RESEARCH NEWS

As it traverses Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is methodically drilling into the surface and pulling out cores of bedrock. A new study has determined the original orientations of these rocks, which could shed light on Mars’ ancient magnetic field.