Scaling quantum + Earth’s early history + data breaches

By rahmat hidayat

Rabu, 15 Oktober 2025

view in browser MIT Daily October 15, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Scaling Quantum Why do some quantum materials scale — making it into hard drives, TV screens, and medical diagnostics — while others stall? MIT researchers have devised a way to evaluate quantum materials’ potential for commercial success, and identified promising candidates that achieve an optimal balance of quantum functionality, high-potential impact, and environmental sustainability. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines 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. Full story via MIT News → Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code Co-founded by an MIT alumnus, Watershed Bio offers researchers who aren’t software engineers a way to run large-scale analyses to accelerate biology. Full story via MIT News → 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. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mit_cee on Instagram→ In the Media 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. “We’ve seen several examples of how cyberattacks have been greatly accelerated due to AI tools,” Madnick explains.  Full story via Planet Money→ Watch This 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 of 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.” Watch the video→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by appreciating rainy days. ☔ 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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