New nanoparticles coated with molecular sensors may enable paper-strip tests for many types of cancer. “We’re focused on ultra-sensitive detection in diseases like the early stages of canceror early on in recurrence after surgery,” Sangeeta Bhatia says.

A new MIT program will help train military leaders for the AI ageequipping naval officers with skills needed to solve the military’s hardest problems. It’s part of the MIT Naval Construction and Engineering programmarking its 125th year in 2026.

In its roundup of the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025Forbes spotlighted MIT engineers’ development of magnetic transistorscalling it a “discovery [that] could enable faster and more energy-efficient semiconductors.”

Nuno Loureiroa professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physicshas died at 47. “In the face of this shocking lossour hearts go out to his wife and their family and to his many devoted studentsfriends and colleagues,” President Kornbluth said.

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