A documentary featuring planetary scientist Sara Seager has won an Emmy Award: “The Hunt for Planet B” followed Seager and others on their search for extraterrestrial life. Three other Emmy-nominated films also featured MIT affiliates.

The restored diploma of Robert Robinson Taylor, MIT’s first Black graduate — presented by his great-granddaughter Valerie Jarrett — highlights connections between the Institute and Tuskegee University.

​​Via @sloanstudentlife on Instagram: “This past weekend, 129 Sloanies across programs spent the weekend meeting new friends, hiking and enjoying nature, playing games and sharing meals while bonding with fellow sloanies in the scenic White Mountains of New Hampshire.”

“[John F.] Clauser got a lot of pushback from scientists who didn’t think this was even part of science,” David Kaiser told the New York Times regarding one winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. “He had to have a lot of stick-to-itiveness to publish his result.”

A new study maps out the cells, genes, and cellular pathways involved in exercise-induced weight loss. “High-fat diets push all of these cells and systems in one way, and exercise seems to be pushing them nearly all in the opposite way,” says Manolis Kellis.

The Engine’s Katie Rae was featured in the Boston Globe as a key figure in Boston’s tech network. The Engine, the Globe wrote, is “for startups focused on ‘tough tech,’ technology that can often take years to perfect and build a business around.”