Spooky issue: quenching + robo-textiles + Infinite tricks and treats 👻

By rahmat hidayat

Jumat, 31 Oktober 2025

view in browser MIT Daily October 31, 2025 Greetings and happy Halloween! 🎃🕷️🧟  Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Quenching Quest Marco Graffiedi, a PhD student in nuclear science and engineering, is helping to develop the next generation of spaceships and nuclear plants. He’s researching quenching, a powerful heat-transfer mechanism that may facilitate refueling in space as well as the cooling of nuclear cores. 🌡️ Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Handweaving shows potential in robotic textiles 👚 Liquid crystal elastomer fibers incorporated into different weave designs create programmable and reversible structures. Full story via MIT Media Lab→ Burning things to make things 🔥 Associate professor of mechanical engineering Sili Deng is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion technologies. Full story via MIT News→ Battery-powered appliances make it easy to switch from gas to electric 🍳 Founded by Sam Calisch SM ’14, PhD ’19, Copper offers electric kitchen ranges that plug into standard wall outlets, with no electrical upgrades required. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mitsailingpavilion on Instagram→ In the Media How one neighborhood engineers the ultimate Halloween spectacle // The New York Times ⚔️ Maria Paskowitz ’96, MBA ’02 and her neighbors have maintained a longstanding community tradition of transforming their Manhattan neighborhood into an open-air museum of Halloween art. This year Paskowitz has transformed “the exterior of the brownstone where she’s lived for the past decade into a colosseum. She is collaborating with her neighbor, Elizabeth Styron, whose children, aged 9, 13, and 17, will dress as gladiators prepared for combat and a chariot race.”  Full story via The New York Times→ Arts on Display 💀 “Reposo y Recuerdo” (“Rest and Remember”), an installation by MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology Lecturer Laura Anderson Barbata, is now on display at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The colorful and participatory installation invites visitors to remember loved ones in the spirit of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead), a tradition celebrated in Mexico and parts of Latin America to honor the departed through music, dancing, and ofrendas — altars adorned with offerings. “My hope is that people will take a moment from the crazy busy schedules that everyone has in New York, and just wind down, take a moment for themselves, and recall and connect with the memories of people that you love,” Barbata says. Learn more→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by an Infinite trick or treat. 🦇 Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to adjust your clocks on Sunday for the return to standard time! —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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