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Researchers are using the lab-friendly grass Brachypodium—a good analog for classic cereal grains—to understand how intermittent drought affects plants at a molecular level. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Spring 2021

Fortifying Crops for Climate Change

J-WAFS project aims to help food grains weather drought

Continuum

If Da Vinci Had an Electron Microscope…

MIT Dome at night

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016

MIT Professor Larry Susskind. Image: Ed Quinn

MIT Professor to Entrepreneurs: Avoid These Negotiation Pitfalls

Continuum

Meet New Orleans’s First Chief Resilience Officer

The Morris and Sophie Chang Building (foreground left) borders the vibrant Kendall Square technology hub. Photo: Christopher Harting with Above Summit

A Campus Treasure is Restored and Renamed

At Expo Milano, Re-Imagining the Future of Food

Miho Mazereeuw designs a plan to guard against floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons. Photo Illustration: Len Rubenstein

Fall 2014

Preemptive Design Saving Cities

Miho Mazereeuw, founder of the Urban Risk Lab, has roots in two countries that have dealt with floods, earthquakes, and typhoons.

Tablet interface showing the process of refining a personalized design assembled using a matching algorithm. Image: Kent Larson

The Apartment of the Future: Living Large in Small Spaces

Continuum

Architecture at MIT: “Transforming Practice”