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Spotlight: May 21, 2025

MIT alumni-founded is tripling the lifetime of bridges and other structures with a technology that makes rebar more impervious to rust. The system slots into existing steelmaking processes to make infrastructure more resilient and affordable.

May 21, 2025

Research and 含羞草传媒 that Matter

In a world without MIT, radar wouldn鈥檛 have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we鈥檇 lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?

Using a strategy that combines information from many large datasets, researchers have identified several new potential drug targets for Alzheimer鈥檚. The study revealed genes and cellular pathways that haven鈥檛 been linked to Alzheimer鈥檚 before.

Engineers have developed a nanofiltration method that yields a sixfold increase in the efficiency of carbon dioxide capture and release. This approach could also reduce costs by at least 20%, addressing a key bottleneck in carbon capture technology.

鈥淢IT Sloan was my first and only choice,鈥 says MBA student David Brown, who served eight years in the US Army as a helicopter pilot, platoon leader, and troop commander. He has co-founded a company to cut emissions from tough-to-decarbonize industries.

Daniela Rus spoke with the Wall Street Journal about her vision for robots as soft and flexible: 鈥淚 really wanted to broaden our view of what a robot is. If you have a mechanism that鈥檚 made out of paper and that moves, is that a robot or not?鈥

鈥婼ince its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy 鈥 and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.