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Racing with the sun

MIT students' solar-vehicle team makes a strong showing down under.

David L. Chandler, MIT News Office

May 5, 2010

Eleanor charges her battery pack in the hot Australian sun before a test drive in the 2009 World Solar Challenge in October.

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Decarbonizing heavy industry with thermal batteries

MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has developed an electrically conductive firebrick that stores heat at high enough temperatures to power industrial processes.

The MIT Press releases report on the future of open access publishing and policy

Report aims to “ensure that open science practices are sustainable and that they contribute to the highest quality research.”

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A blueprint for better cancer immunotherapies

By examining antigen architectures, MIT researchers built a therapeutic cancer vaccine that may improve tumor response to immune checkpoint blockade treatments.

Improving health, one machine learning system at a time

Marzyeh Ghassemi works to ensure health-care models are trained to be robust and fair.

Professor Emeritus James Harris, a scholar of Spanish language, dies at 92

The longtime professor is remembered for his influential role in MIT’s linguistics program and in the expansion of foreign language instruction at the Institute.

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To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

New research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between permeability and selectivity that could inform design of water treatment systems.

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