SpaceX will try catching Starship and its booster for first time, Musk says
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch...
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A cleaner path to rare earth metals
Tomás Villalón Jr. ’14 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family came from—Monterrey, Mexico, a steel manufacturing...
Read moreNebraska native explores galaxies far, far away
Growing up on a small farm in Nebraska, Megan Donahue ’85 discovered the wider world by reading her way through her local library. Today, she is...
Read moreA champion for brain injury patients
Alissa Totman ’13 was a sophomore when she joined MIT BrainTrust, a student-run organization that connects Institute undergraduates and people with brain injuries for support and...
Read moreTaking a swing at a pickleball startup
In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances. He did not. “I spent my early years...
Read moreA good TA: priceless
These are images of quizzes I took in 3.091, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, in the fall of 1980. One is my very first exam at MIT,...
Read moreRobotic therapy for stroke patients
Strokes leave 5 million people with long-term impairments each year, and a growing shortage of physical therapists makes it hard for them to get the care...
Read moreA reason to eat carbs
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can help some people lose weight, and some research has shown that it may protect against colon cancer. But a new study...
Read moreMelt it, spin it, use it again
The average American throws out around 81 pounds of clothing each year, and there are few options for recycling it. MIT engineers hope to cut down...
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Here’s the tea
When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he had no...
Read moreIt’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?
Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or so one might assume. Yet birds like gulls...
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My favorite indie roguelike action RPG is tempting me to come back with a transformative new update inspired by Diablo seasons
Hell Clock's Journey of Miracles update changes the entire game like a new Diablo season, but it won't ever expire.
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