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MIT Geophysicist William Frank discusses the recent earthquake in Japan off the Noto Peninsula, which is part of an earthquake swarm that started in 2020. These swarms are different than subduction earthquakes and are less understood.

MIT Department of Biology faculty Daniel "Danny" Lew uses budding yeast to address fundamental questions in cell biology.

Per Urlaub, head of MIT's Global Languages program, answers three questions about the value of language studies and his vision for the future of the program.

Today’s protests in Iran have been cited as the biggest threat the Islamic Republic has faced since it seized power in 1979. MIT historian Pouya Alimagham sat down to answer questions about the current movement in Iran.

Alberto Rodriguez, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and a principal investigator with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Science Hub, discusses the future of robotics and the importance of industry-academia collaborations.

Professor Fotini Christia introduces the IDSS Research Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR), a new MIT-wide effort to address systemic racism with social science and computation.

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers aim to design concrete recipe mixtures that use AI to shrink its environmental footprint and cost, while recycling byproducts and increasing performance.