MIT Technology Review
MIT researchers crank up T-cell responses with an mRNA adjuvant, making cancer vaccines mightier and flu shots 15 times more effective - because subtlety is overrated.
MIT Technology Review
Teen entrepreneurs get a head start on their midlife crises with LaunchX, where 500 students a year learn to launch startups before they can legally sign a lease.
TechCrunch
Nuclear power gets a makeover: Apollo Atomics shrinks the steam generator to person-size, aiming to beat natural gas at 3 cents per kWh.
ScienceDaily
MIT physicists zap a quantum material with lasers and discover that electrons rebuild themselves like ice crystals, which might one day help replace silicon (but probably not your freezer).
SpaceNews
MIT researchers propose using the Van Allen belt's radiation to sniff out orbital nukes, because treaties without verification are just really fancy suggestions.
Ars Technica
MIT study finds ozone depletion was detectable by 1957 with modern tools - meaning we could have saved the ozone layer even earlier, if only we'd had the foresight to invent satellites sooner.
Ars Technica
MIT and friends find a cheaper, greener way to pull lithium from rocks, because the planet's battery addiction isn't going anywhere.
ScienceDaily
One of 28 gravitational wave events looks suspiciously like dark matter was lurking around the black hole merger - but scientists aren't ready to call it a date yet.
MIT Technology Review
MIT engineers propose solving the plastic waste and housing crises simultaneously by 3D-printing floor trusses from recycled bottles, because the future of home construction is apparently a six-pack.
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