WMBR 88.1 FM, MIT’s all-volunteer radio station, builds community connections with its music and spoken-word shows. “It’s really fun ... being able to hang out with people who love music just as much as you do,” says co-general manager Maggie Lin.

CSAIL researchers have used machine learning to decode a phonetic “alphabet” used by sperm whales. They found the structure of the whales’ click patterns varies significantly depending on the conversational context, suggesting an intricate communication system.

Via @neisacollegesailing on Instagram: “Congratulations to the recipient of Women’s Sportsperson of the year, Brooke Schmelz! … This award goes to the most outstanding sportsperson in women’s sailing in NEISA.”

A new sound-suppressing silk fabric could be used to create quiet spaces within large areas. “While we can use fabric to create sound, there is already so much noise in our world. We thought creating silence could be even more valuable,” Grace Yang SM ’21, PhD ’24 says.

The Boston Globe spotlighted “Drawing After Modernism,” a new exhibit at the MIT Museum featuring approximately 50 architectural sketches in various media by “some very famous designers” from the late 1970s to late 1980s.

Astronomers have observed starlight surrounding some of the universe’s earliest quasars — blazing centers of active galaxies that host a supermassive black hole at their core. The findings may help explain how these early black holes became so massive so quickly.