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Physicists have observed a form of magnetism that could offer a path to “spintronic” memory devices. “This breakthrough paves the way for a new class of ultrafast, compact, energy-efficient, and nonvolatile magnetic memory devices,” Qian Song says. news.mit.edu/2025/physicist…
MIT physicists have discovered a new form of magnetism called "p-wave magnetism " that allows electrical switching of electron spin, offering a path to ultrafast, energy-saving spintronic memory devices. #MIT #MITNews #Physics #Spintronics #TechNews #Innovation 🔗 Read more:…
MIT CS3 postdoc Anthony Wong discusses his research on the #climate, #AirQuality & #health impacts of burning various low or zero-carbon fuels. Wong is developing an air quality emulator that could estimate how a climate policy would improve public health. tinyurl.com/ycy3j5ms
🧠 New research finding: Astrocytes ensure neural information processing by maintaining ambient levels of the neurotransmitter chemical GABA picower.mit.edu/news/study-fin… #neuroscience #brain @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT
Meet the chemist who’s reimagining how we build molecules, one tiny tweak at a time. Alison Wendlandt is pioneering new ways to control chemical reactions, unlocking breakthroughs in medicine, materials, and more. news.mit.edu/2025/chemist-w…
"How do we take complex ideas like pandemics, vaccines, and cancer pathways and make them accessible and amenable to each audience? Looking back, I see it’s a lesson I learned at MIT." - Chemistry Alum Deborah Pan Dorner ’03 in a profile by @MIT_alumni chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-news…
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. news.mit.edu/2025/qs-ranks-…
MIT chemists have shown that they can boost the efficiency of a bacterial version of rubisco, a key enzyme in photosynthesis news.mit.edu/2025/mit-chemi…
Did anyone in Massachusetts spot a red rainbow over the weekend? 🌈 MIT Wallace Astrophysical Observatory Director Mike Person breaks down this cool atmospheric phenomenon for the @bostonherald buff.ly/iqYQ4Pt
In this Graduate Student Spotlight, Camryn Carter shares the food she craves most often, the skill she'd like to master, her best and worst purchases, and more. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-news…
Am I Blue? Green? Something in Between? Some marine photoplankton can adapt to changing light, altering #ocean #ecosystems and, potentially, #carbon storage, finds a study co-authored by MIT CS3 Senior Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz. ecco-group.org/storymaps.htm?…
Congrats to molecular biologist Feng Zhang @zhangf for being elected to @EMBO membership! He is among 69 new members recognized for their outstanding contributions to life sciences. 🍾 @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/07/01/fen…
Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a good book — and MIT authors have had much to offer in the past year. The following titles represent some of the books published in the past 12 months by MIT faculty and staff. news.mit.edu/2025/summer-re…
Alisa White, a postdoc in the @PageLabXY studying sex differences in the brain, recalls the moment she became interested in foundational research. wi.mit.edu/news/meet-whit… #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles
Matthew Caren ’25 studied math, @MITEECS, and @MIT_SHASS music at MIT. He researches computational models of how people use their voices to communicate sound at CSAIL, and interpretable real-time machine listening systems at the MIT Music Technology Lab.
🎶💻 Meet 2025 #HertzFellow Matthew Caren! Matthew’s work spans generative AI, sound, and human expression. At @MIT, he built interpretable machine listening systems—and now, he’s headed to @Stanford for his PhD in #ComputerScience.🔗 bit.ly/4jRJO0v #AI #MusicTech
The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints via @Gizmodo gizmodo.com/image-reveals-…
The SPECULOOS team is part of an international collaboration that has recently discovered the smallest star to have a transiting giant planet - challenging leading planetary formation theories. buff.ly/ONbBoHi
Former EAPS Postdoc Benjamin Uveges is narrowing down the timeline of the Great Oxygenation Event (OGE), the point in Earth's history when oxygen began to accumulate, and what it means for complex life: buff.ly/o2GU0vb
From the MIT Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Division of Student Life — huge congratulations to every graduate in the MIT Class of 2025! You did it, and we’re so proud of you! #MIT2025
MIT President Sally Kornbluth's charge to the Class of 2025: