| MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant The company has announced that it will build the first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution A small fleet of autonomous surface vessels forms a large sonar array for finding submerged objects. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Why open secrets are a big problem Philosopher Sam Berstler diagnoses the corrosive effects of not acknowledging troubling truths. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Celebrating the opening of the new Graduate Junction residence MIT grad students and their families joined project and construction staff to mark the collaborative effort to plan and create MIT’s newest graduate residence. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Hate grocery shopping? Robots could soon do it for you // NBC Boston Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL, discusses her work developing a new AI system aimed at making grocery shopping easier, more personalized, and more efficient. Full story via NBC Boston→ |
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| A moving museum experience at MIT // The Boston Globe The “Moving Objects” exhibit at the MIT Museum features around 50 items from the 1.5 million in the museum’s permanent collection. Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| The world’s largest space telescope just got an unexpected new role: asteroid hunter // National Geographic Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), MIT astronomers spotted “small space rocks — including some just dozens of feet in length, the tiniest ever discovered in our solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.” Full story via National Geographic→ |
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