CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * 3 Questions: Using computation to study the world's best single-celled chemists * Today, out of an estimated 1 trillion species on Earth, 99.999 percent are considered microbial bacteria, archaea, viruses, and single-celled eukaryotes. For much of our planet's history, microbes ruled the Earth, able to live and thrive in the most extreme of environments. Researchers have only just   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell * During early development, tissues and organs begin to bloom through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to predict, minute by minute, how individual cells will fold, divide, and rearrange during a fruit fly's earliest stage of growth. The   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025 * The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named nine MIT affiliates as members of the 2025 class of NAI Fellows. They include Ahmad Bahai, an MIT professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor in the Department of M  more

SANTA BARBARA, California, Dec. 15 [Category: BizReal Estate] -- Yardi, a provider of property management software and investment management solutions for real estate, issued the following news release: * * * Simplified selects Yardi to centralize property and construction operations * Multifamily firm unifies management, project tracking and resident services on a single connected platform SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 15, 2025 - Yardi (r) announced today that Simplified Management, a devel  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 16 [Category: BizConsulting] -- Bain and Co., a management consulting firm, posted the following news release: * * * Six trends to watch in 2026 as Asia-Pacific prepares to overtake North America as the largest consumer market worth $36 trillion in 2035 * SINGAPORE December 16, 2025 Asia Pacific is set to overtake North America as the largest consumer market in 2035, according to a new joint report by Bain & Company and NielsenIQ (NIQ). Private consumption in the   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 16 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, posted the following news release on Dec. 15, 2025: * * * Sparks of Wisdom: What We Learned This Year from 10 GE Vernova Innovators Earlier this year, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik wrote that helping to solve the energy challenges of tomorrow depends on the "gritty, never-give-up" hopefulness of its 75,000 employees. "What we've learned in our first historic year as GE Vernova is that the best way to do this starts on our fa  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * What makes a good proton conductor? * A number of advanced energy technologies including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and an emerging class of low-power electronics use protons as the key charge carrier. Whether or not these devices will be widely adopted hinges, in part, on how efficiently they can move protons. One class of materials known as metal oxides has shown promise in con  more