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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom Margaret Hamilton, the computer pioneer whose software powered the first moon landing, has died, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Wednesday. She was 90. In an era before titles such as software engineer and computer scientist became mainstream, Hamilton, who died on 30 September, learned to program under the tutelage of a renowned MIT meteorologist. Continue reading...

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Oct 8, 2026 · byThe Guardian
MIT’s minimalist JAZ agent beats Letta and ACE on memory tasks

MIT’s minimalist JAZ agent beats Letta and ACE on memory tasks

JAZ's efficiency and cost-effectiveness in memory tasks could drive innovation in AI agent development, emphasizing budget-friendly solutions. The post MIT’s minimalist JAZ agent beats Letta and ACE on memory tasks appeared first on Crypto Briefing .

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Oct 7, 2026 · byCryptoBriefing
Solana Foundation Launches Atomic DvP Settlement Tool With JPMorgan Input

Solana Foundation Launches Atomic DvP Settlement Tool With JPMorgan Input

TL;DR The Solana Foundation has launched Solana DvP, an open-source delivery-versus-payment settlement program for financial institutions. The MIT-licensed tool is designed to settle the asset and cash legs of a transaction atomically through isolated escrow. JPMorgan provided input on institutional settlement practices, but the program is a Solana Foundation release rather than a JPMorgan product. The Solana Foundation is putting a piece of traditional securities-market plumbing directly onchain. Solana DvP, announced on October 6, is an open-source escrow program designed to let financial institutions settle delivery-versus-payment transactions in a single atomic process. JPMorgan provided input on institutional settlement requirements as the system was developed. Delivery And Payment Move Together Delivery versus payment is a basic idea with large operational consequences. In a securities transaction, one party needs to deliver the asset while the other delivers the cash. If those two legs settle separately, each side carries the risk that one movement completes while the other does not. Solana DvP is designed to make the two legs conditional on each other. The program uses isolated escrow, atomic settlement and enforceable deadlines so that an exchange can complete as one transaction rather than as two loosely coordinated movements. The code is being released under the MIT licence, giving financial institutions and developers a reusable building block rather than a closed vendor product. Public Blockchain Infrastructure Is Being Adapted For Institutions The involvement of JPMorgan is useful context, but it needs to be described accurately. The bank provided input on the settlement practices and requirements institutions expect. The Solana Foundation built and released the program. That still matters because institutional settlement is not simply a larger version of moving tokens between retail wallets. Banks and market infrastructures care about finality, operational controls, failed settlement, deadlines and the ability to integrate blockchain activity with existing legal processes. Solana DvP is an attempt to encode some of those expectations into a public-chain settlement primitive. It will not, on its own, move the world’s securities markets onto Solana. What it does provide is something more concrete than a broad tokenization promise: open-source infrastructure that institutions can test against a familiar delivery-versus-payment model. The important follow-up will be which firms use it in live transactions and whether the design can connect cleanly with regulated custody, cash and securities systems. This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.

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Oct 6, 2026 · byNewsBTC
MIT scientists find a hidden cancer risk of the keto diet

MIT scientists find a hidden cancer risk of the keto diet

A ketogenic diet increased small-intestinal tumors in cancer-prone mice while reducing tumors in the colon, revealing a strikingly different response within neighboring parts of the gut. Researchers traced the increased risk not to ketones, but to the way intestinal stem cells processed the diet’s high levels of fat. That fat-burning activity pushed the cells to multiply more rapidly, potentially raising the chance of cancerous changes.

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Oct 6, 2026 · byScienceDaily
Historic Superconductor Deal Brings Commercial Fusion a Step Closer

Historic Superconductor Deal Brings Commercial Fusion a Step Closer

A company based in the United States just got one step closer to making nuclear fusion a reality. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), an MIT offshoot, just inked a deal with a Japanese producer of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) in the largest deal of its kind in history. The contract is going to bring the company’s tokamak fusion device a step closer to commercial reality at a pivotal point in the global race to unlock the technology hailed as the holy grail of clean energy. This specialized tape is a critical material for making tokamaks…

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Oct 1, 2026 · byOilPrice.com
Princeton falls from top spot on US News rankings

Princeton falls from top spot on US News rankings

Princeton University has fallen from the top spot on U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings for the first time in 15 years.  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) beat the long-time champs, with Princeton dropping to the second spot and Harvard University coming in third.   While MIT did not directly comment on its…

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Sep 22, 2026 · byThe Hill
MIT’s tiny flying robot gets 450% faster with AI

MIT’s tiny flying robot gets 450% faster with AI

A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology could eventually enable miniature robots to search earthquake rubble and navigate dangerous spaces that conventional drones cannot reach.

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Sep 22, 2026 · byScienceDaily
AI-powered barcode unmasks 'zombie cells' in aging tissue

AI-powered barcode unmasks 'zombie cells' in aging tissue

As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders such as cancer, tissue degeneration and inflammatory diseases. In an advance that could lead to better ways to diagnose and treat those diseases, MIT researchers have developed a noninvasive way to detect biomarkers of senescence. Their method is based on Raman microscopy, which can reveal the biochemical composition of cells without harming them.

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Sep 21, 2026 · byPhys.org
Three questions: Putting nuclear waste into perspective

Three questions: Putting nuclear waste into perspective

For decades, one of the major complaints about nuclear power in the United States has been the argument that, after all this time, we still have not come up with a dependable strategy for sequestering high-level radioactive waste, including spent fuel from plant operation. This issue is of such importance that Haruko Wainwright has put it at the center of her research agenda as an Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professor in Energy Studies at MIT and an associate professor in the departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Sep 16, 2026 · byPhys.org
New MIT Process Could Solve Hydrogen's Biggest Supply Chain Problem

New MIT Process Could Solve Hydrogen's Biggest Supply Chain Problem

Scientists at MIT have discovered a new way to extract high-purity hydrogen from ammonia while using a lot less energy than previous technologies. The breakthrough could provide a critical inroad toward reducing the energy and ecological footprint of the hydrogen sector, which powers a wide range of industrial processes and technologies from fuel cells to computer chip manufacturing.   Green hydrogen has often been touted as a silver-bullet solution for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors like the shipping industry and steelmaking, as…

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Sep 14, 2026 · byOilPrice.com
First PLP-dependent enzyme that influences bacterial protein production discovered

First PLP-dependent enzyme that influences bacterial protein production discovered

Researchers from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology's (SMART) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group, alongside collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), and institutions in the United States, Poland and France, have discovered aminovaleramididine synthetase (AvaS), the first identified pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme responsible for producing a chemical modification linked to how bacteria respond to metabolic stress.

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Sep 10, 2026 · byPhys.org
MIT scientists develop injectable “mini livers” that work inside the body

MIT scientists develop injectable “mini livers” that work inside the body

MIT engineers have developed injectable “mini livers” designed to help support people whose failing livers can no longer perform essential jobs. Instead of replacing the damaged organ, the approach injects liver cells together with tiny hydrogel spheres and supportive cells, creating a pocket of functioning tissue that can connect to the bloodstream.

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Sep 7, 2026 · byScienceDaily
Open Source vs. Source-Available: What the Coldcard Failure Teaches About Bitcoin Software Incentives

Open Source vs. Source-Available: What the Coldcard Failure Teaches About Bitcoin Software Incentives

Bitcoin Magazine Open Source vs. Source-Available: What the Coldcard Failure Teaches About Bitcoin Software Incentives FOSS rests on four essential freedoms defined by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative’s ten criteria. Licenses that withhold commercial rights, such as MIT plus Commons Clause, shrink the reviewer pool and shift the burden back onto the vendor. This post Open Source vs. Source-Available: What the Coldcard Failure Teaches About Bitcoin Software Incentives first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Juan Galt .

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Aug 20, 2026 · byBitcoin Magazine