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06/11/2026
Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in the U.S. by the end of the decade. Today, around a third of data center electricity is devoted to cooling the chips that run AI models. That’s the process Ferveret is working to make more efficient. https://news.mit.edu/2026/nuclear-inspired-cooling-system-ferveret-could-make-data-centers-more-sustainable-0610
How can we recreate the power of the sun?
That question started as a class project for Zach Hartwig and led to one of science’s biggest challenges. Today he and his team at Commonwealth Fusion Systems are helping bring fusion energy down to earth.
Read his story: https://curiositymission.org/stories/cfs/
06/09/2026
MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar. Their findings add to a longstanding mystery in cosmology: Why do supermassive black holes exist so early in the universe’s history? https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-astronomers-discover-earliest-known-flickering-quasar-0608
As we celebrate 250 years of American independence, we are reminded that MIT was founded in the same spirit: to advance knowledge, foster innovation, and serve the country through education, research, and discovery. https://understanding.mit.edu/
06/07/2026
How do some skills become second nature? MIT researchers are uncovering how the brain turns repeated actions into automatic behavior, offering new insight into learning, habit formation, and performance. https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-some-skills-become-second-nature-0304
06/06/2026
The startup Foray Bioscience, founded by an MIT alumna, is engineering plants from single cells to create new materials and protect endangered species. https://news.mit.edu/2026/designing-more-resilient-future-plants-foray-0227
06/05/2026
Cartesian is helping retailers keep track of inventory with a technology invented at MIT. The system uses wireless signals from radio frequency identification (RFID) tags attached to items to find their precise location in a store, from the stockroom to the shop floor. https://news.mit.edu/2026/cartesian-helps-retailers-track-their-products-in-real-time-0605
Every year, about 85,000 Americans are diagnosed with bladder cancer. While treatment is often successful, bladder cancer has one of the highest rates of recurrence of any cancer. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to regularly monitor those patients, which could enable regrowing tumors to be detected much earlier.
Every year, about 85,000 Americans are diagnosed with bladder cancer. While treatment is often successful, bladder cancer has one of the highest rates of recurrence of any cancer. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to regularly monitor those patients, which could enable regrowing tumors to be detected much earlier. https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-sensor-could-enable-earlier-detection-bladder-cancer-0528
06/02/2026
“Immunotherapies are possible today only because thousands of scientists, for more than 40 years, followed their curiosity to probe the immune system’s deep processes.
Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.” — MIT President Sally Kornbluth
MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart “This erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation,” writes MIT President Sally Kornbluth.