by Julio Marchi | Sep 9, 2025 | STEM News
In the summer of 2024, people across North America were amazed when auroras lit up the night sky across their hometowns, but the same solar activity that makes auroras can cause disruptions to satellites that are essential to systems on Earth. The solution to...
by Julio Marchi | Sep 9, 2025 | STEM News
Using tiny particles shaped like bottlebrushes, MIT chemists have found a way to deliver a large range of chemotherapy drugs directly to tumor cells.To guide them to the right location, each particle contains an antibody that targets a specific tumor protein. This...
by Julio Marchi | Sep 9, 2025 | STEM News
In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid water. Suitable candidates often sit in the “Goldilocks zone,” a distance that is neither too close nor too far from their host star to allow...
by Julio Marchi | Sep 8, 2025 | STEM News
The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research fondly remembers its founding director, David Baltimore, a former MIT Institute Professor and Nobel laureate who died Sept. 6 at age 87.With discovery after discovery, Baltimore brought to light key features of biology...
by Julio Marchi | Sep 8, 2025 | STEM News
Most people recognize Alzheimer’s disease from its devastating symptoms such as memory loss, while new drugs target pathological aspects of disease manifestations, such as plaques of amyloid proteins. Now, a sweeping new open-access study in the Sept. 4 edition of...
