| Music’s Healing Power | | | | | | | | PhD student Kimaya (Kimy) Lecamwasam is investigating the impact of live music and concert experiences on the mental health and well-being of audience members and performers. She is also working to clinically validate music listening, composition, and performance as health interventions. “That close connection between making music and feeling well is what first pushed me to ask why music has such a powerful hold on us,” she says, “and eventually led me to study the science behind it.” | | | | Why some quantum materials stall while others scale In a new study, MIT researchers evaluated quantum materials’ potential for scalable commercial success — and identified promising candidates. |  | | | | | | | Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth” Materials from ancient rocks could reveal conditions in the early solar system that shaped the early Earth and other planets. |  | | | | | | | MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks A new method turns down quantum noise that obscures the “ticking” of atoms, and could enable stable, transportable atomic clocks. |  | | | | | | | How organizations can boost their AI maturity level An MIT Center for Information Systems Research brief highlights four areas leaders must address as they embed AI across their business. |  | | | | | | | Data on the baseball diamond Michael McClellan PhD ’18, an applied physicist in baseball operations and R&D for the Tampa Bay Rays, is among the growing ranks of scientists working for MLB clubs. |  | | | | | | | MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2025 The Institute’s pooled investments returned 14.8 percent last year; endowment stands at $27.4 billion. |  | | | | | | | Top universities in the U.S. 2026 // Times Higher Education MIT has been ranked the No. 1 university in the United States in Times Higher Education’s latest rankings. The rankings highlight U.S. universities that “excel in teaching, research, and global influence.” | | | | | | | Scientists just took a giant step toward scaling up nuclear fusion // Gizmodo MIT researchers developed a method that can predict how plasma will behave in a tokamak reactor given a set of initial conditions. The findings may have “lowered one of the major barriers to achieving large-scale nuclear fusion.” | | | | | | | What’s supercharging data breaches? // Planet Money Professor Stuart Madnick discusses the growing problem of data breaches in the U.S., and how AI is feeding into the problem. | | | | | | | Art and data team up against climate change // The New York Times “Remembering the Future,” a sculptural installation at the MIT Museum created by Janet Echelman, uses “climate data from the last ice age to the present, as well as projected future environments, to create a geometric design.” Echelman worked with MIT faculty, including Professor Raffaele Ferrari and Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller, to bring the project to life. | | | | | | | | | | In this installment of the “World at MIT” video series, Yukiko Yamashita recounts her childhood in Japan and how her father, a huge admirer of Albert Einstein, encouraged her to think about the science behind all things, even at an early age. Sensing that academia could be a good fit for her, Yamashita became a postdoc at Stanford University, where she realized how much she enjoyed studying multicellular organisms. Now a professor of biology at MIT, Yamashita says, “I’m really looking forward to finding out more and more and more. That feeling doesn’t get old.” | | | Collegiate Collaborations | | | | | | | 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. Recently, researchers from MIT and Syracuse University dug into ancient rock cores in South Africa to unearth clues about the timing of the Great Oxidation Event. Occurring over 2 billion years ago, this marked the first time oxygen produced by photosynthesis started to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere. The team’s work provides insight on how Earth’s environment, particularly oxygen levels, has evolved over time. | | |
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