MIT’s top research stories of 2022

MIT News  December 21, 2022
To mark the end of the year, MIT News is looking back at 10 of the research stories that generated the most excitement in 2022. Stories covered include Designing a heat engine with no moving parts, Creating a lightweight material stronger than steel, Enabling portable desalination at the push of a button, Linking human genes to function, Improving supercomputing with a new programming language, Lifting people out of extreme poverty, Helping robots fly, Detecting a radio signal in a far-off galaxy, Proposal for a new, low-cost battery design. Popular stories this year covered the detection of radio signals from space, a new battery design, immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity, Immigrants as job creators and more…read more.