Better pills + data visualization + nuclear ship safety

By rahmat hidayat

Kamis, 23 Oktober 2025

view in browser MIT Daily October 23, 2025 Greetings! Did you know many local and state elections are taking place this November in the U.S.? Election Day is just 12 days away, so get ready to vote with election and voting resources at mit.turbovote.org. Now, here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Better Pills Enzian Pharmaceutics’ new tablets allow oral cancer drugs to be delivered more steadily into the bloodstream, to improve effectiveness and reduce side effects. “We believe this is a more efficient and effective way to deliver drugs,” Aron Blaesi PhD ’14 says. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data Researchers find that design elements of data visualizations influence viewers’ assumptions about the source of the information and its trustworthiness. Full story via MIT News → MIT Maritime Consortium releases “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook” The first-of-its-kind handbook serves as a guide for design safety for civilian nuclear ships. Full story via MIT News → School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25 The newest MIT engineering faculty are conducting research across a diverse range of subject areas. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mitaeroastro on Instagram→ In the Media Scientists just detected a long-lost planet “hiding” inside Earth // Gizmodo Researchers at MIT have uncovered evidence of “proto Earth,” which existed before a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into the Earth billions of years ago. The researchers “found an odd imbalance of potassium isotopes in ancient rock samples. Chemical analyses revealed the anomaly couldn’t have emerged from any known geological processes on modern Earth.”  Full story via Gizmodo→ Digit 200FT Length of wall space covered in murals painted by MIT-affiliated artists, in the tunnels under MIT between Buildings 66 and E17. Learn more→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by award-winning open-access books for Open Access Week. 📖 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.pese@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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