Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson joined GBH to discuss the role of institutions in creating shared prosperity. “For the longer-term health of the U.S. economy,” Acemoglu said, “there’s probably nothing more important than its institutions.”

Inspired by the jets squid use for propulsion, researchers have developed an ingestible capsule that can release a dose of drugs into the wall of the stomach or other digestive organs. It could offer an alternative to injections of drugs such as insulin.

Physicists were surprised to find that under specific conditions, electrons split into fractions of themselves. A new study suggests a mechanism for how this could work, enabling “all kinds of new experiments that previously one could only dream about,” Senthil Todadri says.

Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 will attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to expanded financial aid. And for families with income below $100,000, parents will pay nothing at all toward the full cost of an MIT education.

The MIT spinout Emvolon is repurposing automotive engines to create small chemical plants next to sources of methane, to create green methanol and other chemicals. "We see this as a new way of chemical manufacturing,” Emmanuel Kasseris SM ’07, PhD ’11 says.

Four from MIT have been named 2025 Rhodes Scholars. Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.