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Trinity Challenge announces inaugural winners

Jun 26, 2021

The University of Cambridge joined a coalition of some of the world’s leading businesses and academic and tech institutions to launch The Trinity Challenge in September 2020. “Echoing the observations...

Inflatable, shape-changing spinal implants could help treat severe pain

Jun 26, 2021

When connected to a pulse generator, the ultra-thin electrodes start sending small electrical currents to the spinal cord, which disrupt pain signals. Early tests of the device suggest that it...

Four researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships

Jun 26, 2021

Four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 28 around the world to have been named to a competitive Schmidt Science Fellowship, an award created in 2017 to advance interdisciplinary studies among early-career...

TUM at new Munich Urban Colab research and creative center

Jun 26, 2021

The joint initiative by TUM and UnternehmerTUM gives start-up founders a comprehensive ecosystem with the necessary development environments. Business incubator UnternehmerTUM, which is an an-institute of TUM, and the Bavarian...

E-scooters as a new micro-mobility service

Jun 25, 2021

This study sheds light on the growing utility of e-scooters as a micro-mobility service in Singapore, and will also inform operators, planners, and policymakers on how best to harness and...

Rudy Giuliani's Law License Suspended

Jun 25, 2021

Rudy Giuliani’s law license has been suspended. Specifically, Giuliani’s actions related to his defense of former President Donald Trump were to blame, according to the court. The factual “proof” he...

Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

Jun 25, 2021

Now for the first time, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have cooled a large, human-scale object to close to its motional ground state. Their results, appearing today in Science, represent...

Grace Moore ’21 receives Michel David-Weill Scholarship

Jun 25, 2021

Grace Moore ’21, a recent graduate of the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), is the first from MIT to receive the prestigious Michel David-Weill Scholarship, which provides...

Marmoset study identifies brain region linking actions to their outcomes

Jun 25, 2021

“We have identified the very specific region of the brain involved in goal-directed behaviour. Using drugs, the researchers temporarily switched off the anterior cingulate cortex including its connections with another...

Rock crystals from the deep give microscopic clues to earthquake ground movements

Jun 25, 2021

The new study, published in Nature Communications, is the first to map out the crystal defects and surrounding force fields in detail. Their work reveals that the way Earth’s surface...