Recently heard on the Chalk Radio podcast: Ceasar McDowell of MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication, on designing better, more equitable public conversations. “We have to learn to talk to each other,” he says. “Yes, this is hard work, and yes, you can do it.”

Suono Bio, founded by two MIT professors and an alumnus, is using a proven technology to boost the treatment of gastrointestinal tract disorders.

A new MIT Sloan report offers 25 solutions for social media’s growing flaws — such as spreading misinformation, and lacking competition and transparency. “We’re now at a crossroads between its promise and its peril,” Sinan Aral says

The Covid-19 pandemic is generating thousands of tons of medical waste daily. A new study estimates that decontaminating N95 masks, so that health care workers can wear them for more than one day, can cut mask-use costs and waste by at least 75 percent.

At least 39 MIT alumni have qualified, participated, or served as an alternate at 29 Olympic Games, including three alumnae who are competing in Tokyo this month.

Nergis Mavalvala, professor of physics and dean of the MIT School of Science, discusses LIGO’s 2015 discovery of gravitational waves and what researchers in the field have learned since then.