This week at MIT: Improving patient care, peel-and-stick-solar, robotic hand control + more ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
| MIT WeeklyMarch 28, 2026 | 
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| | "I hope my work can provide clarity for patients and physicians, and empower them to be confident in their options for care," MIT senior Alex Tang says. The aspiring physician-scientist is also a triathlete and editor-in-chief of the Institute's student newspaper. |
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| | Active Surfaces aims to install peel-and-stick solar panels everywhere |
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| This award-winning startup with roots at the MIT Energy Initiative is developing lightweight, flexible, high-efficiency solar energy films designed to be used on roofs, walls, and any curved surface. |
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| How the brain handles the "cocktail party problem" |
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| Using a computational model, neuroscientists showed how the brain can selectively focus attention on one voice among others in a noisy environment. |
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| Bridging medical realities in the study of technology and health |
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| Anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas studies overlooked insights from people health care is meant to reach. |
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| Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements |
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| By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtual environment. |
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| | Linguistics graduate student William Pacheco hopes to preserve his endangered native language, while also becoming a better learner and educator. |
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| QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026 |
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| The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas. |
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| | | | Opinion: Why rooftop solar in Mass. is flawed, and how to fix it // The Boston Globe |
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| Professor Christopher Knittel and graduate student Fischer Espiritu Argosino make the case that in Massachusetts the "current compensation structure for the electricity produced by solar panels turns a climate solution into an inequitable cost shift that burdens many residents." |
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| MIT Museum video traces how Janet Echelman translates climate data into woven art // Designboom |
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| A new video "traces the technical process behind 'Remembering the Future,' the woven work by Janet Echelman at the MIT Museum." |
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| Opinion: Why "temporary" is the most expensive word in retirement planning // Forbes |
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| "Retirement planning can no longer be framed solely as a question of how much to save or how to invest," says Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab. |
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| What do hundreds of gravitational-wave events reveal about the universe? // Scientific American |
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| Associate Professor Salvatore Vitale and graduate student Jack Heinzel discuss the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration's latest catalog of gravitational wave detections, which "more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events — and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes." |
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| | | | In this installment of the "World at MIT" video series, Professor Fiona Murray shares what it was like growing up in the south of England and how exploring the MIT course catalog during her time as a Harvard University graduate student led her to pursue what she was truly interested in. Now a professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Murray continues to instill the Institute's spirit of "mind and hand" in her students, and to give them "the inspiration, the tools, the methods that they need to actually go and make a difference." |
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| I think it's crucial to consider the ways climate change intertwines with all these other realms of people's experiences; it affects where we live, it affects what we eat, it affects the economy, it affects our health. Approaching it in isolation doesn't seem to be the most productive framework. As communicators, we have a responsibility to listen and learn and talk about all these many and varied ways that climate change shows up in people's lives. |
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| —Madison Goldberg, science communicator and the new host of the Ask MIT Climate podcast |
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| | | A recent workshop introduced participants to Raman spectroscopy, a technique that uses laser light to "fingerprint" materials. The session, led by MIT postdoc Lamyaa Almehmadi in collaboration with the Center for Bits and Atoms, featured a robotic "dog" equipped with sensing equipment, demonstrating how the technique can be used in dangerous environments such as crime scenes or toxic industrial sites. |
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