MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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MORE FROM THE MIT COMMUNITY
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FEATURED VIDEO
In MIT’s long-running Battlecode competition, student teams from around the world program huge armies of digital bots that duke it out in an epic video-game-style tournament. “The spirit of the competitors is what makes the program so great,” says junior Andy Wang.
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IN THE MEDIA
Popular Science interviewed Josh McDermott about his research on how music can impact a person’s mood. “There’s this big cultural shift in the way that we consume music and other audio that really happened over the last decade,” he says.
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RESEARCH NEWS
The DART mission, including postdoc Saverio Cambioni, smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, showing for the first time that such an object can potentially be deflected away from Earth.
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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
Anna Osherov, an assistant director at MIT.nano, helps researchers use state-of-the-art tools to probe materials’ nanoscale properties. She was attracted to materials science because of its breadth and interdisciplinary perspective — as she puts it, “Everything around us is material.”
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