Science

Why happiness is not the best indicator of well-being
Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.
Jason Crawford
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How Arc Institute is bringing science into the century of biology
Stephen Johnson
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Agriculture
Plant sensors could act as an early warning system for farmers
Using sensors made from carbon nanotubes, researchers discovered signals that help plants respond to stresses like heat, light, or attack.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
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Sports
How physics models could improve NBA teams’ performance
Sam Jarman
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Memory
Memory champion explains how she memorizes 1,080 numbers in 30 minutes
Stephen Johnson
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Engineering
“Iron Man” material made from DNA and glass is 4x stronger than steel
Kevin Dickinson
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Physics
From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
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Engineering
Ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober created the world’s smallest Nerf gun — from DNA
Kevin Dickinson
A pink coral is growing on the bottom of the ocean.
Oceans
Sex life discovery raises IVF hope for endangered purple cauliflower soft coral
Tom R. Davis and Stephen D. A. Smith and Kirsten Benkendorff and David Harasti and Meryl Larkin
A person using a syringe to inject something into a petri dish.
CRISPR
New “anti-CRISPR” discovered in viruses
Kristin Houser
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Physics
Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals
Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory | MIT News
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Food
Why this startup is creating edible oil from sawdust
Kevin Dickinson
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Physics
QBism and the philosophical crisis of quantum mechanics
Adam Frank