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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs, social enterprises, and academic institutions as they integrate artificial intelligence-powered solutions across topics like health, resilience, and economy.The Transit Lab’s winning project, the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to unify public transportation agencies’ real-time monitoring, operations control, and passenger communication systems into a single centralized AI-orchestrated platform that will allow...

📅 2026-09-30 15:15:00    •    MIT News
Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn
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Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn

TOPIC:Knowledge sharing Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn The three laboratories welcomed the high-school students who won this year’s edition of Beamline for Schools Written by: Nicoletta Barzaghini — 30 September, 2026 From 11 to 25 August, a bit earlier as usual due to Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), CERN, DESY (the German electron synchrotron facility in Hamburg) and ELSA (the electron accelerator at the University of Bonn) welcomed the winners of the 2026 Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition. Member of the Turkish team “PionIST 3”, Ceren Akgün, explaining the experiment at CERN during the VIP Sponsor’s Day 2026. (Image: CERN) Launched in 2014 to mark CERN...

📅 2026-09-30 15:05:23    •    CERN
“La nuit est belle!” 2026
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“La nuit est belle!” 2026

TOPIC:At CERN “La nuit est belle !” 2026 From 9 to 11 October, CERN will participate in the sixth edition of “La nuit est belle !” by switching off lights across its sites — 30 September, 2026 Starting on the evening of Friday, 9 October, CERN will participate in the sixth edition of “La nuit est belle !”. Thanks to this initiative, turning off or dimming street lighting in the middle of the night has become common practice across the Geneva canton. For this edition, “La nuit est belle !” invites the public to explore the night through the theme of water. Rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands and landscapes shaped by water all serve as starting points for discovering the natural, cultural and sen...

📅 2026-09-30 15:03:08    •    CERN
This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
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This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select ideal strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like military maneuvers.Using advances in machine-learning, researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and Stanford University developed an AI that defeated top-ranked human players of the board wargame Stratego by a large margin — something no AI system had been able to achieve. Stratego, a two-player game of imperfect information, in which the opponent’s piece identities remain hidden, is often used as a benchmark to test the strategic thinking abilities of powerful AI models.To bu...

📅 2026-09-30 15:00:00    •    MIT News
2 – 12 October | CERN will be at the “Fête de la science” 2026
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2 – 12 October | CERN will be at the “Fête de la science” 2026

TOPIC:Knowledge sharing 2 – 12 October | CERN will be at the “Fête de la science” 2026 CERN is organising a wide range of activities across the Pays de Gex as part of the collaborative science programme led by Addictlab — 30 September, 2026 From 2 to 12 October, explore the theme “saveurs, savantes” at the Fête de la Science across France, including in the Pays de Gex. To mark the occasion, CERN is taking part in the collaborative science trail coordinated and led by Addictlab, offering a range of events and activities. This collaborative science trail spans the entire Pays de Gex region, involving local authorities, organisations, businesses and researchers. Many activities and sessions are...

📅 2026-09-30 13:55:44    •    CERN
Photo exhibition|The impact of CERN technologies: from fundamental research to our everyday lives
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Photo exhibition|The impact of CERN technologies: from fundamental research to our everyday lives

TOPIC:At CERN Photo exhibition | The impact of CERN technologies: from fundamental research to our everyday lives An exhibition on the Esplanade des Particules showcases in images some of the practical applications of CERN technologies and the expertise of CERN scientists and engineers — 30 September, 2026 The exhibition on the Esplanade des Particules. (Image: CERN) CERN’s fundamental research and unique environment are fertile ground for innovations in particle accelerators, detectors and computing that can benefit society as a whole, sometimes in surprising ways. This photo exhibition presents a selection of the practical applications of CERN technologies and the expertise of CERN scienti...

📅 2026-09-30 13:54:46    •    CERN
Edinburgh writer and Birmingham student win 21st BBC Short Story Awards with Cambridge University
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Edinburgh writer and Birmingham student win 21st BBC Short Story Awards with Cambridge University

Edinburgh writer and Birmingham student win 21st BBC Short Story Awards with Cambridge University Jessica Keating Wed, 09/30/2026 - 11:35 The awards were announced on Tuesday 29 September at a ceremony at BBC Broadcasting House and broadcast live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The National Short Story Award 2026Cherise Saywell won the BBC National Short Story Award with the University of Cambridge for Ditto, a story about a child’s conflicting loyalties and moment of bravery when violence erupts in his house, which was described by judges as ‘assured’ and ‘beautifully crafted.’ Set in a small Australian town inspired by the place where Saywell grew up, the story explores masculinity, domestic a...

📅 2026-09-30 10:35:28    •    Cambridge News
Lung cancers can use two different mechanisms to evade KRAS-inhibiting drugs
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Lung cancers can use two different mechanisms to evade KRAS-inhibiting drugs

About 25 percent of lung adenocarcinomas have mutations of the gene KRAS, which drives uncontrolled cell growth. In recent years, the FDA has approved two KRAS inhibitors to treat patients with KRAS mutations. While these drugs can work well initially, tumors almost always develop resistance to them.Usually, resistance emerges because cells reactivate KRAS activity, through mutations that prevent drug binding or by increasing KRAS expression that overpowers the effects of the inhibitor. However, in a new study, MIT researchers have modeled an alternative mechanism that cancer cells can use to become resistant to KRAS inhibition.The researchers found that in some cases, lung tumors undergo tr...

📅 2026-09-30 09:00:00    •    MIT News
Climate Action Learning Lab bridges research and policy for effective climate solutions
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Climate Action Learning Lab bridges research and policy for effective climate solutions

J-PAL North America, a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), convened the second cohort of the Climate Action Learning Lab this spring with 17 climate leaders from four U.S. government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Participants then engaged in four months of programming designed to strengthen their skills in generating and using evidence, applying research insights to their own programs, and identifying promising policy-relevant interventions for evaluation.The Climate Action Learning Lab first emerged in 2025 as a response to an urgent need for rigorous research on programs that seek to improve resilience to climate-related hazards and support the t...

📅 2026-09-29 20:35:00    •    MIT News
Why a fight might be just what your group needs
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Why a fight might be just what your group needs

Priya Parker.Photo by Fernando Palafox. Arts & Culture Why a fight might be just what your group needs Priya Parker says sometimes reckoning with buried tensions can help reconnect group to values, identity — and one another September 29, 2026 long read Excerpted from “The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict” by Priya Parker, M.P.P. ’12, published on Sept. 8 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Parker is a specialist in conflict resolution who works with organizations, communities, and leaders. When people in conflict first call me, they tend to say some version of: “Make this go away.” I get it. Conflict is not...

📅 2026-09-29 20:01:38    •    Harvard Gazette
Who’s in charge here?
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Who’s in charge here?

Alex Pascal (left), Avijit Ghosh, Jeff Dunn, and Amit Goldenberg. Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Science & Tech Who’s in charge here? Scholars, industry leaders debate how to reduce risks of AI, ensure humans remain in charge of development Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent September 29, 2026 4 min read What do we want from AI? That was the question posed by Alex Pascal, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, at the outset of a panel discussion co-hosted by the center on how AI “can serve people and make our society better.” The powerful, potentially game-changing technology has been in the headlines in recent months after high-profile reports of expe...

📅 2026-09-29 18:31:59    •    Harvard Gazette
‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it
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‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it

Arts & Culture ‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it Complexity a common theme in GSD students’ option studios Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer September 29, 2026 4 min read Sarah Whiting. Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design don’t just apply their knowledge in the classroom — they tackle real-world challenges facing communities across the world, including in advanced “option studios,” where innovations in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design are among this year’s projects. “Design is not a single thing,” said Dean Sarah Whiting during a kickoff event this month. “It’s not a single technique...

📅 2026-09-29 18:25:45    •    Harvard Gazette