CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 14 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * 3 Questions: Making the most of limited data to boost pavement performance Pavements form the backbone of our built environment. In the United States, almost 2.8 million lane-miles, or about 4.6 million lane-kilometers, are paved. They take us to work or school, take goods to their destinations, and much more. To secure a more sustainable future, we must take a careful look at the   more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, May 14 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * An Interview with Holly Palmgren: Environmental Project Leadership Holly Palmgren is a Senior Environmental Project Manager whose career spans three decades in construction for public transportation, including more than 20 years at the Massachusetts Bay Transportati  more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, May 15 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * An Interview with Steve Kochis, Connecticut Energy Market Lead With more than two decades of experience in Connecticut land development and over eight years of focused renewable energy work, Steve Kochis leads VHB's Connecticut Energy team and has spent years devel  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 15 -- Boston University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Drinking Water, Select Foods Linked to PFAS in California Adults While concentrations of older "forever" chemicals appear to have decreased in many foods over the last two decades, a new study found that drinking water, along with seafood, eggs, and brown rice, still contribute to PFAS exposure in adults. More attention is needed to newer, replacement PFAS. By Jillian McKoy Food has   more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, May 14 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * Connecticut DOT's ITMP Program Highlighted at WTS Conference Last week, the WTS (Women's Transportation Seminar) International Conference in Toronto, Canada featured a discussion on Connecticut Department of Transportation's (CTDOT) Connecticut Integrated Transit M  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 14 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Deploying a practical solution to space debris At this moment, there are approximately 35,000 tracked human-generated objects in orbit around Earth. Of these, only about one-third are active payloads: science and communications satellites, research experiments, and other beneficial technology deployments. The rest are categorized as debris -- defunct satellites, spent rocket bodies,   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 14 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition The winner of this year's MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies reach more patients faster with a new kind of drug-injection device. CoFlo Medical says its low-cost device can deliver biologic drugs more than 10 times faster than existing methods, accelerating the treatment of a range of conditions incl  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 14 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Steven Truong '20 named 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholar MIT alumnus Steven Troung '20 has been awarded a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship and will join the eighth cohort of the prestigious fellowship. Knight-Hennessy Scholars receive up to three years of financial support for graduate studies at Stanford University. Knight-Hennessy Scholars are selected for their independence of thoug  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 14 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Study shows vision-language models can't handle queries with negation words Imagine a radiologist examining a chest X-ray from a new patient. She notices the patient has swelling in the tissue but does not have an enlarged heart. Looking to speed up diagnosis, she might use a vision-language machine-learning model to search for reports from similar patients. But if the model mistak  more