Via @omp.mit on Instagram: “Check out this Monday’s #IndigenousPeoplesDay events by MIT’s AISES and NASA student orgs! On Monday we soft open the new Indigenous Student Space in W31 followed by some great virtual conversations”

Images from the Perseverance rover, shown here with enhanced color, confirm that Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake, EAPS researchers report. The team also detected signs of flash flooding that carried huge boulders for miles downstream into the lakebed.

The Boston Globe wrote that Boston-area innovators, including various MIT startups, are “aiming their moonshot ideas at a climate crisis that has only gotten worse.” The Engine’s Katie Rae said: “We are here to back those super ambitious companies.”

Ten years into a comprehensive process to reimagine the 14-acre Volpe parcel in Kendall Square, MIT has garnered city and community support through its attention to community benefits, equity and inclusion practices, and public open space.

“U.S. competitiveness depends less on defensive measures than on what we do to strengthen our own capacities,” Maria Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research, told Congress in testimony on striking a balance between research security and openness.

Artificial intelligence has great potential to advance medical care, but patient privacy is a top concern. Technology developed by Secure AI Labs, co-founded by Anne Kim ’16, SM ’17, lets AI algorithms run on encrypted datasets that never leave the data owner’s system.