| A Better Fuel Cell | | | | | | A new fuel cell that runs on inexpensive liquid sodium could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries. The improvement in energy density could be the breakthrough that finally makes electrically powered flight practical. |
| Study finds a high-fat diet sets off metabolic dysfunction in cells, leading to weight gain Researchers also found these effects can be reversed by treatment with an antioxidant. |  |
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| U.S. universities are filling a regional innovation gap Universities can seed regional economic growth by attracting and training top talent who go on to file patents and found local companies, a new study shows. |  |
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| Physicists observe a new form of magnetism for the first time The magnetic state offers a new route to “spintronic” memory devices that would be faster and more efficient than their electronic counterparts. |  |
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| MIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing The Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors. |  |
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| A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy MIT researchers’ new membrane separates different types of fuel based on their molecular size, eliminating the need for energy-intensive crude oil distillation. |  |
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| Women’s track and field wins first NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship MIT thus completed a sweep of the 2024-25 NCAA Division III women’s cross country, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field titles — becoming the first women’s program to win all three in the same year. |  |
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| Opinion: New England companies are sparking an industrial revolution. Here’s how to harness it. // The Boston Globe Professor David Mindell examines how “a new wave of industrial companies, many in New England, are leveraging new technologies to create jobs, empower workers, and address climate change.” |
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| The moon doesn’t have a magnetic field, so why does it have magnetic rocks? // Space.com MIT astronomers found evidence that a massive asteroid impact billions of years ago may have briefly amplified the moon’s old, weak magnetic field, leaving behind a magnetic imprint still detectable in lunar rocks. |
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| Opinion: Hippies, Bell tests, and a career studying quantum entanglement // Physics Today Professor David Kaiser chronicles his career studying physics and the history of science, and his quest to unravel quantum entanglement. |
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| | “My wife, Erin Tevonian, and I both graduated last week with our PhDs in biological engineering, a program we started together when we arrived at MIT in fall 2019. It was during our graduate studies at MIT that we got engaged (spring 2022) and married (last September), a milestone that we were able to celebrate with the many wonderful friends we found at MIT. Erin and I were standing at Commencement with the Class of 2025 at the moment this photo was snapped, smiling as we listened to MIT’s school song. Graduation is a bittersweet milestone because it represents the end of what has been an incredible adventure for us, an adventure that made campus feel like home. This moment, though, felt like a fitting close for our time at MIT, and I was filled with gratitude for the many memories, opportunities, and adventures I got to share with Erin over the course of grad school.”
—Viraat Goel MBA ’25, PhD ’25 on how he and Erin Tevonian PhD ’25 celebrated their MIT journey together at last week’s OneMIT Ceremony (story has been condensed; full story at the link below)
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| | | Can you fill in the MIT-related clue from Monday’s New York Times crossword puzzle? You’ll find a hint to the answer below. |
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