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How fasting helps and harms the gut

In addition, the researchers found that the regeneration was due in part to activation of a cellular signaling pathway known as mTOR, which causes cells to produce more protein; this protein synthesis... Read more »

Picture this

When alumni opened the first issue of The Technology Review in January 1899, they found not only a description of MIT’s new Pierce Building but crisp photographs of its interiors as well.... Read more »

MIT sky cam

A bird’s-eye view of campus featuring Maseeh Hall, captured by a DJI Mavic 3 drone in late August. Given airspace restrictions, the photographer, an FAA-certified drone pilot, had to get FAA clearance... Read more »

Arvola Chan ’74, SM ’76, EE ’78, PhD ’80

“I spent 10 years at MIT, earning four degrees in electrical engineering and computer science,” says Arvola Chan ’74, SM ’76, EE ’78, PhD ’80. “I was a beneficiary of scholarships through... Read more »

Harnessing MIT’s collective power

One of the things I’ve come to value deeply about the MIT community is the near-universal willingness to name a problem, measure it, design a solution, and keep iterating until it’s right.... Read more »

The Renaissance man from Port Gamble Bay

The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe signed a treaty with the US government in 1855 that ceded the vast majority of their historic territories but left them rights to access traditional food sources,... Read more »

How MIT’s Rad Lab rescued D-Day

But the dreadful European weather—overcast and stormy, particularly in the late fall, winter, and early spring months—rendered all that firepower virtually useless. By the end of 1943, with D-Day only months away,... Read more »

“I wanted to save lives”

At 14, Bell enrolled in the highly selective Brooklyn Technical High School, where she divided her time between academics and a newfound interest in running; she was, as she puts it, “competitive... Read more »

The Download: beyond freezing food, and AI mediation

Three-quarters of everything in the average American diet passes through the cold chain—the network of warehouses, shipping containers, trucks, display cases, and domestic fridges that keep meat, milk, and more chilled on... Read more »

Would you trust AI to mediate an argument?

Researchers from Google DeepMind recently trained a system of large language models to help people come to agreement over complex but important social or political issues. The AI model was trained to... Read more »