| Recyclable EV Batteries | | | | | | | | A new self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries for electric vehicles. “If we can start to recycle lithium-ion batteries from battery waste at scale, it’ll have the same effect as opening lithium mines in the U.S.,” says Yukio Cho PhD ’23. | | | | New particle detector passes the “standard candle” test The sPHENIX detector is on track to reveal properties of primordial quark-gluon plasma. |  | | | | | | | New report captures the state of quantum computing The report from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy is a comprehensive assessment of the technology and the global landscape, from patents to the quantum workforce. |  | | | | | | | 3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI Artificially created data offer benefits from cost savings to privacy preservation, but their limitations require careful planning and evaluation, Kalyan Veeramachaneni says. |  | | | | | | | Understanding shocks to welfare systems Angie Jo’s doctoral studies find that when a collective crisis strikes, nations with shallow social safety nets, like the U.S., respond with massive spending. |  | | | | | | | MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork. |  | | | | | | | The 68-year-old engineer who hacked triathlon training Armed with a tinkerer’s mindset, longtime aerospace engineer Bruce Kirch ’81 has found new purpose — and considerable success — in the triathlon. |  | | | | | | | Rainer Weiss, who gave a nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, dies at 92 // The New York Times Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was honored for his work “developing a device that uses gravity to detect intergalactic events, like black holes colliding, and who helped confirm two central hypotheses about the universe,” has died at 92. | | | | | | | Five questions for Daniela Rus on the future of AI // Politico Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL, shares her views on the promise of embodied intelligence, which would allow machines to adapt in real-time; the development of AI agents; and how the U.S. can lead on the development of AI technologies. | | | | | | | The 10 private colleges with the best ROI in the U.S. // CNBC MIT has been named one of the top private colleges in the country for return on investment, according to Princeton Review’s latest survey. | | | | | | | This bumblebee-like robot might one day pollinate plants on Mars // CNN CNN visits the lab of Associate Professor Kevin Chen to learn more about his group’s work developing a bee-like robot that can flap its wings up to 400 times a second, flip, and hover, as well as a grasshopper-inspired robot that can hop 20 centimeters into the air in terrains ranging from grass to ice. | | | | | | | | | | Debbie Douglas, senior director of collections and curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum, is driven by a question: “Why are things the way they are today?” With some 1.5 million objects from throughout MIT’s history, the museum holds broad appeal for anyone who is, as Douglas says, “insanely curious.” | | | | | | MIT researchers work regularly with colleagues at universities across the U.S. to devise new solutions to complex challenges. These connections demonstrate how shared expertise and diverse viewpoints can amplify discovery and accelerate solutions that benefit communities across America and beyond. One recent example of such intercollegiate collaboration was a project in which researchers at MIT and the University of Chicago showed how a specially trained population of immune cells can prevent other immune cells from attacking their own. The work provides a new understanding of immune regulation during infection and could serve as a foundation for interventions to prevent or reverse autoimmune diseases. | | | | | | The Student Lending Art Program is a unique tradition that allows MIT students to borrow original artwork from MIT’s List Visual Arts Center for the academic year. The extensive collection contains more than 700 framed works of art, primarily prints and photographs, and is made available to students each September. Students from the program’s 2024-25 cohort recently described the artwork they selected and how it impacted them. | | | | | | The promise of carbon-free energy from human-controlled nuclear fusion is as strong as it’s ever been. How have MIT-affiliated engineers and researchers contributed toward a world powered by fusion? Browse the MIT News archives to learn more. | | |
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