Via @mitathletics on Instagram: “It got wild late last night as the 25th-ranked MIT softball team walked off No. 8 Tufts in an eight-inning thriller at Briggs Field in game two of the doubleheader. The Engineers made some clutch plays late to secure the team's 19th win of the year!”

After soaking water into its belly feathers, the male Namaqua sandgrouse can fly more than 20 kilometers to deliver the water to its chicks. Materials scientists have now identified the microscopic structures giving the feathers their remarkable water-retention ability.

MIT’s Beekeepers Club, started in 2015, wants to “keep the buzz going” about the importance of bees while they tend to a hive on campus. “We host honey-tasting events, lip-balm events, and other fun bee-related things,” Fiona Lin says.

Astronomers have mapped the winds gusting out from a neutron star as it draws material away from a sun-like star. The findings may offer clues to how supermassive black holes shape entire galaxies.

Responding to Ukraine’s “ocean of suffering,” former MIT Energy Initiative researcher Ian Miller SM ’19 and Evan Platt SM ’20 are funneling aid and expertise to the front line. “It’s not easy living and working in an active combat zone,” Platt says.

If U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths, a new study shows. “This might mean that we need to deploy even more renewables,” says Noelle Selin.