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In “Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands,” MIT Assistant Professor Héctor Beltrán explores the relationship between computer culture and society in Mexico. He finds that coding generates fruitful reflection by the coders, about themselves, their political and economic circumstances, and what roles they can play in society.

An MIT-led international team reports a powerful tool for studying and tuning atomically thin materials called moiré systems, where exotic phenomena including superconductivity can occur. The work could lead to heady applications in novel electronics and more.

MIT astronomers mapped the “disk winds” associated with the accretion disk around Hercules X-1, a system in which a neutron star is drawing material away from a sun-like star, represented as the teal sphere. The findings may offer clues to how supermassive black holes shape entire galaxies. Credit:

The 2D map of this “disk wind” may reveal clues to galaxy formation.

Scientists map gusty winds in a far-off neutron star system -

MIT astronomers have mapped the “disk winds” associated with the accretion disk around Hercules X-1, a system in which a neutron star is drawing material away from a sun-like star. The findings may offer clues to how supermassive black holes shape entire galaxies.

Injecting insulin has replaced by new robotic pill, drug capsule, Giovanni Traverso, displacing the mucus, Vancomycin

Ten faculty in the MIT School of Science are appointed named professorships in biology; Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences; mathematics; and physics.

The poor are not lacking capabilities or a desire to escape poverty, but are stuck in poverty traps, according to a long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by an MIT economist analyzes the success of “Big Push” antipoverty programs.

Chronic poverty in the developing world can seem like an insoluble problem. But a long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by an MIT economist presents