Recyclable EV batteries + climate predictions + trading while fighting

By rahmat hidayat

Rabu, 03 September 2025

view in browser MIT Daily September 3, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. 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. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction New research shows the natural variability in climate data can cause AI models to struggle at predicting local temperature and rainfall. Full story via MIT News → Why countries trade with each other while fighting Mariya Grinberg’s new book, “Trade in War,” examines the curious phenomenon of economic trade during military conflict. Full story via MIT News → Marcus Stergio named ombudsperson Offering confidential, impartial support, the Ombuds Office helps faculty, students, and staff resolve issues affecting their work and studies at MIT. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mit.ixe on Instagram→ In the Media 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. In an earlier interview, Weiss reflected upon the wonder unlocked by LIGO: “With gravitational waves, you have a new way to look at [the] universe. You can see all that nature has in store. So now comes the question: What do you want to find out?” Full story via The New York Times→ Meet Your MIT Neighbor Name: Michelle Frank Affiliation: Postdoc at the Whitehead Institute, in the lab of Professor David Bartel What is your current research focus? Understanding how it is that the brain, on a physical level, is able to balance the need to learn new things and adapt to new experiences while maintaining the stable connections required for you to understand and interact with the world around you. What was your path to a career in science? I did research in undergrad in cognitive linguistics and auditory neuroscience. Actually, one of my first research experiences was as a summer student in the MSRP program here at MIT, where I worked in a lab that did quantitative modeling of language and communication. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I mostly wanted to be a writer. I really enjoyed reading books, and thinking about language and how it works. Those early interests got me really excited about neuroscience, because I was fascinated by the question: How is it that I can say a bunch of words, and then you hear them and they mean something to you? Full interview via Whitehead Institute→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by a love of ballroom — and MIT. 💃🏻 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.pese@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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