Safer chemo + remembering Arvind + Titan’s wavy seas

[view in browser]( MIT Weekly [MIT Logo] June 22, 2024 Greetings! Here’s a roundup of the latest from the MIT community. Want a daily dose of MIT in your inbox? [Subscribe to the MIT Daily](. Safer Chemotherapy #[Chemotherapy patients getting treatment]( [Leuko]( founded by a research team at MIT, is giving doctors a noninvasive way to monitor cancer patients’ immune health during chemotherapy. Rather than drawing blood, the device uses light to look through the skin at the top of the fingernail. [Full story via MIT News →]( Top Headlines Arvind, longtime MIT professor and prolific computer scientist, dies at 77 The dedicated teacher and academic leader transformed research in computer architectures, parallel computing, and digital design, enabling faster and more efficient computation. [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves MIT researchers find wave activity on Saturn’s largest moon may be strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas. [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain MIT neuroscientists have found that the brain uses the same cognitive representations whether navigating through space physically or mentally. [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( Researchers use large language models to help robots navigate The method uses language-based inputs instead of costly visual data to direct a robot through a multistep navigation task. [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( Investing for change MIT Sloan research helps family enterprise investors amplify their impact with a systems approach. [Full story via MIT Spectrum→]( [News thumbnail]( A smarter way to streamline drug discovery The SPARROW algorithm automatically identifies the best molecules to test as potential new medicines, given the vast number of factors affecting each choice. [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( #ThisisMIT #[Seven people (plus an inflatable rabbit and stag), while smiling, pose with musical instruments in a conference room. Text via @‌mitlibraries: We're kicking off MIT Libraries Summer Fridays with a picture of the Libraries (book) cover band, The Dust Jackets! Made up of staff members from across the Libraries, the Dust Jackets perform at staff appreciation events.]( [Follow @mitlibraries on Instagram→]( In the Media A wild plan to avert catastrophic sea-level rise // The Atlantic Professor Brent Minchew discusses his quest to develop new technology “that could slow down the cryosphere’s disintegration.” [Full story via The Atlantic→]( Scientists may have found an answer to the mystery of dark matter. It involves an unexpected byproduct // CNN MIT physicists have discovered the composition of primordial black holes, “potentially discovering an entirely new type of exotic black hole in the process.” [Full story via CNN→]( What “naked” singularities are revealing about quantum space-time // New Scientist Associate Professor Netta Engelhardt discusses the possibility of singularities existing outside black holes. Theorists can now probe singularities from a deeper perspective, using insights into the possible quantum foundations of gravity. [Full story via New Scientist→]( “Jurassic Park” theme preserved in DNA in “amber” // Newsweek An amber-like material created by MIT researchers could be used to preserve DNA so it can store data. [Full story via Newsweek→]( Scene at MIT #[Bust of Nikola Tesla on which someone has put a Celtics baseball cap]( Congrats to the Celtics on their NBA Championship! Remember This #[The MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics logo is above the text “Supply Chain Frontiers”. Below that is an Illustration of Jaume Plensa’s “Alchemist”.]( In a new episode of the [MIT Supply Chain Frontiers podcast]( members of the [MIT Low Income Firms Transformation (LIFT) Lab]( — Director Josué Velázquez Martínez, postdoc Sreedevi Rajagopalan, and graduate student Fabio Castro — discuss the lab’s work empowering micro retailers and nanostores in emerging markets to lift themselves out of poverty. These retailers, while making up an overwhelming majority of retail business in their regions, are at a significant disadvantage when dealing with large suppliers and competing with large retailers. Using AI, the LIFT Lab is helping these retailers enhance their business decision-making and supply chain capabilities to help them survive and thrive. [Listen to the full episode]( This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by [seeing inside one of MIT’s newest buildings](. 🏢 The MIT Weekly will be on hiatus next week, returning July 6. Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Thanks for reading, and have a great week! —MIT News [Forward This Email]( [Subscribe]( [MIT Logo] This email was sent to {EMAIL} because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. [subscribe]( [update preferences]( [unsubscribe]( [view in browser]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA