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Inflammation jolts “sleeping” cancer cells awake, enabling them to multiply again
https://news.mit.edu/2025/inflammation-jolts-sleeping-cancer-cells-awake-0918
Published: September 18, 2025 19:40
Chemotherapy-induced injury of organ tissue causes inflammation that awakens dormant cancer cells, which may cause new tumors to form.
Could a primordial black hole’s last burst explain a mysteriously energetic neutrino?
Published: September 18, 2025 04:00
If a new proposal by MIT physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the first evidence of elusive Hawking radiation.
Q&A: David Whelihan on the challenges of operating in the Arctic
https://news.mit.edu/2025/qa-david-whelihan-challenges-operating-arctic-0917
Published: September 17, 2025 15:00
How do you access and conduct research in one of the world's harshest and most demanding environments?
A more precise way to edit the genome
https://news.mit.edu/2025/more-precise-way-edit-genome-0917
Published: September 17, 2025 15:00
MIT researchers have dramatically lowered the error rate of prime editing, a technique that holds potential for treating many genetic disorders.
Working to make fusion a viable energy source
https://news.mit.edu/2025/working-make-fusion-viable-energy-source-george-tynan-0917
Published: September 17, 2025 15:00
As the Norman C. Rasmussen Adjunct Professor, George Tynan is looking forward to addressing the big physics and engineering challenges of fusion plasmas.
Decoding the sounds of battery formation and degradation
https://news.mit.edu/2025/decoding-sounds-battery-formation-degradation-0916
Published: September 16, 2025 15:00
New findings could provide a way to monitor batteries for sounds that could guide manufacturing, indicate remaining usable life, or flag potential safety issues.
How to build AI scaling laws for efficient LLM training and budget maximization
https://news.mit.edu/2025/how-build-ai-scaling-laws-efficient-llm-training-budget-maximization-0916
Published: September 16, 2025 15:00
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a universal guide for estimating how large language models will perform based on smaller models in the same family.
MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-geologists-discover-where-energy-goes-during-earthquake-0916
Published: September 16, 2025 04:00
Based on mini “lab-quakes” in a controlled setting, the findings could help researchers assess the vulnerability of quake-prone regions.
Machine-learning tool gives doctors a more detailed 3D picture of fetal health
Published: September 15, 2025 14:00
MIT CSAIL researchers developed a tool that can model the shape and movements of fetuses in 3D, potentially assisting doctors in finding abnormalities and making diagnoses.
New RNA tool to advance cancer and infectious disease research and treatment
https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-rna-tool-advance-cancer-infectious-disease-research-treatment-0911
Published: September 11, 2025 20:45
Advance from SMART will help to better identify disease markers and develop targeted therapies and personalized treatment for diseases such as cancer and antibiotic-resistant infection.
Technology originating at MIT leads to approved bladder cancer treatment
https://news.mit.edu/2025/technology-originating-at-mit-approved-bladder-cancer-treatment-0911
Published: September 11, 2025 04:00
A system conceived in Professor Michael Cima’s lab was approved by the Food and Drug Administration after positive results in patients.
MIT software tool turns everyday objects into animated, eye-catching displays
https://news.mit.edu/2025/fabobscura-turns-everyday-objects-into-animated-displays-0910
Published: September 10, 2025 19:15
The FabObscura system helps users design and print barrier-grid animations without electronics, and can help produce dynamic household, workplace, and artistic objects.
DoE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions
Published: September 10, 2025 15:45
The research center, sponsored by the DoE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, will advance the simulation of extreme environments, such as those in hypersonic flight and atmospheric reentry.
Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine
https://news.mit.edu/2025/ten-years-later-ligo-black-hole-hunting-machine-0910
Published: September 10, 2025 15:00
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate the anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves and announce verification of Stephen Hawking’s black hole area theorem.
Study explains how a rare gene variant contributes to Alzheimer’s disease
https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-explains-how-rare-gene-variant-contributes-alzheimers-disease-0910
Published: September 10, 2025 15:00
Lipid metabolism and cell membrane function can be disrupted in the neurons of people who carry rare variants of ABCA7.
Study finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-like-dimmer-dial-0909
Published: September 9, 2025 15:00
The findings may redefine how cell identity is established and enable the creation of more sophisticated engineered tissues.
“Bottlebrush” particles deliver big chemotherapy payloads directly to cancer cells
Published: September 9, 2025 09:00
Outfitted with antibodies that guide them to the tumor site, the new nanoparticles could reduce the side effects of treatment.
Alzheimer’s erodes brain cells’ control of gene expression, undermining function, cognition
Published: September 8, 2025 20:25
Study of 3.5 million cells from more than 100 human brains finds Alzheimer’s progression — and resilience to disease — depends on preserving epigenomic stability.
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos
https://news.mit.edu/2025/physicists-devise-idea-lasers-shoot-beams-neutrinos-0908
Published: September 8, 2025 15:30
Super-cooling radioactive atoms could produce a laser-like neutrino beam, offering a new way to study these ghostly particles — and possibly a new form of communication.
Study finds exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e is unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere
Published: September 8, 2025 14:50
Astronomers led by EAPS postdoc Ana Glidden ruled out several atmospheric scenarios for the planet, narrowing ideas of what habitability there might look like.