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Brain-Body Communication
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Diana Grass, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, is developing soft bioelectronic devices that help decode signals between the brain and the rest of the body. “The body is communicating all the time,” she says. “We still lack the tools to understand its language.”
A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies // NPR
Assistant Professor Raphael Zufferey developed a winged robot that can swim and fly like a diving bird, which could be used for a range of applications, including monitoring harmful algal blooms, fish stocks, and coastal erosion.
Top 10 universities for business degrees 2026 // Times Higher Education
Times Higher Education ranks MIT as the No. 1 university for business degrees in their 2026 World University Rankings list. “In addition to MBA courses, executive training programs and other postgraduate degrees, the [Sloan School of Management] also teaches undergraduates through ‘Course 15,’ which provides business skills to students with a technical and quantitative background.
We are going to figure out what real problems exist that we could approach with quantum tools, and ... we are going to change the forward momentum of quantum in a way that supports impact.
—Danna Freedman, professor of chemistry and director of the MIT Quantum Initiative
