CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * 3 Questions: How to launch a successful climate and energy venture * In 2013, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Managing Director Bill Aulet published "Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup," which has since sold hundreds of thousands of copies and been used to teach entrepreneurship at universities around the world. One MIT course where it's use  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Anything-goes "anyons" may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments * In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually exclusive; the presence of one should inherently destroy the other. Now, the  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * MIT in the media: 2025 in review * "At MIT, innovation ranges from awe-inspiring technology to down-to-Earth creativity," noted Chronicle, during a campus visit this year for an episode of the program. In 2025, MIT researchers made headlines across print publications, podcasts, and video platforms for key scientific advances, from breakthroughs in quantum and artificial intelligenc  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * MIT's top research stories of 2025 * In 2025, MIT's research community had another prolific year filled with exciting scientific and technological advances. To celebrate the achievements of the past 12 months, MIT News highlights some of our most-read stories from this year. * More powerful concrete "batteries" : MIT researchers combined cement, water, ultra-fine carbon black, a  more

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 [Category: BizConsulting] -- MITRE, a company that advances national security and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, posted the following news release: * * * NIST Launches New Artificial Intelligence Centers, Expands Collaboration with MITRE * McLean, Va., and Bedford, Mass., December 22, 2025 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced (link is external) two new national initiatives, expanding its long-standing  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Study: High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous * One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet rewires liver cells and makes them more prone to becoming cancerous. The researchers found that in response to a high-fat diet, mature hepatocytes in the liver revert to an immature,   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Study: More eyes on the skies will help planes reduce climate-warming contrails * Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere. Contrails trap heat that radiates from the planet's surface, and while the magnitude of this impact is uncertain, several studies suggest   more