“The Guardians: Unite the Realms,” a video game created by the Media Lab’s Craig Ferguson, has won Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design award in the Wellness category. The game employs behavioral activation techniques to address mental health.

In 2016, Meicen Sun recognized that “control of digital information will lie at the heart of all the big questions and big contentions in politics.” Now her work suggests the success of China’s internet controls may spark similar efforts elsewhere.

CNN reported that Kristoff Misquitta won the 2020 Genes in Space contest for work to understand how the liver functions in space. “Hopefully we can use this as a platform to someday develop more advanced and different types of medications,” he said.

The startup Figur8, founded by Nan-Wei Gong SM ’09, PhD ’13, offers a wearable sensor system to improve diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries. “Our vision is to create a self-diagnostic tool that patients can use with their doctors,” she says.

Crossing disciplines and adding fresh eyes to nuclear engineering, Limiao Zhang sees surprising connections between the behavior of cars and bubbles.

Research shows that most people care about climate change. The hard part is getting them to fight it. Why? Even as temperatures climb and natural disasters rage, John Sterman says, the phenomenon seems overwhelmingly complex, distant, and abstract.