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Almost 50% of Gen Z and Millennials want crypto in retirement funds: Survey

Almost 50% of Gen Z and Millennials want c...

Nearly half of Gen Z and Millennials are also already invested in digital assets outside of their retirement funds and cited “inflation” as th...

Potential US ban is a reminder that influencers should dump TikTok

Potential US ban is a reminder that influe...

With TikTok facing the prospect of removal from the United States, users should realize that traditional tech companies are far less reliable ...

How to see inside a tornado

How to see inside a tornado

Tornadoes form in 10 seconds or less. So Howie Bluestein ’70, SM ’72, PhD ’76, a storm chaser for 40-plus years, is working with colleagues t...

The perks of being MIT alumni

The perks of being MIT alumni

Your MIT alumni benefits One of the most important MIT benefits alumni can access is the MITAA’s Infinite Connection (IC) web portal. With an ...

Portraits of Black life in the South

Portraits of Black life in the South

When Baldwin Lee ’72 was five years old, his father told him he’d be going to MIT. The oldest male child in a Chinese immigrant family, he did...

The bilingual brain

The bilingual brain

Close your eyes and, for a moment, imagine you know two languages. For any noun you can think of—object, feeling, place—two words exist where ...

Alan ’72 and Joan Henricks

Alan ’72 and Joan Henricks

“MIT was a very humbling experience for me,” says Alan Henricks, one of the first generation in his Midwestern family to attend college. “But ...

Dynamic duo

Robert Downey Jr. got to wear Iron Man’s suit playing fictional MIT alum Tony Stark on the big screen. But he marveled at what he called “real...

Building the next version of the internet

Building the next version of the internet

Kirin Sinha ’14 remembers the first time she worked with augmented reality (AR) as a student at MIT. With a friend and fellow engineer, she bu...