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Computer Security: Kids at the keyboard
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Computer Security: Kids at the keyboard

TOPIC:Computing Computer Security: Kids at the keyboard Written by: Computer Security Office — 17 September, 2026 Last weekend, while the sun was shining brightly, nature was flourishing in all its colours, flavours and scents and hundreds of birds were chirping their favourite tunes, I decided to go for a stroll with my dog. A nice two-hour walk in the vineyards around CERN, hiking up the Jura, enjoying the view and returning home full of energy. So nice and neat. Or not… Under the supervision (or not) of my eldest daughter, I left my young son at home (as both were, as usual, not interested in a walk, and I was not interested in an argument about that). My daughter upstairs chatting with f...

📅 2026-09-17 09:29:52    •    CERN
Strong evidence for quantum entanglement between Z bosons found by ATLAS and CMS
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Strong evidence for quantum entanglement between Z bosons found by ATLAS and CMS

TOPIC:Physics Strong evidence for quantum entanglement between Z bosons found by ATLAS and CMS The mind-bending phenomenon is now becoming evident in a new particle Written by: Rory Harris — 17 September, 2026 Artistic impression of quantum entanglement between two Z bosons (Image: Daniel Dominguez/CERN) Quantum entanglement is certainly one of the stranger concepts to have emerged from the melting pot of 20th-century physics. Many great physicists, including Einstein, struggled to accept that the phenomenon could be real but, for decades now, the number of examples demonstrating it has been increasing. And, recently, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have added to these results by finding st...

📅 2026-09-17 08:15:26    •    CERN
Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand
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Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand

Every new generation of phone display, television screen, and solar panel is a result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of candidate materials. These experiments can take months to run, requiring scientists to meticulously angle and adjust delicate light sources, mirrors, cameras, and other components, in a careful and constant tuning that can be physically tedious and time-consuming. But MIT scientists say the whole process of building and running an optics experiment could one day be fully automated. Taking a step toward such a future, they have developed a reconfigurable, robotic optics laboratory. The new robotic l...

📅 2026-09-17 04:00:00    •    MIT News
You like Ike. But AI may help campaigns figure how to ensure you actually vote
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You like Ike. But AI may help campaigns figure how to ensure you actually vote

Doug Sosnik (left) and Sara Fagen. Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Nation & World You like Ike. But AI may help campaigns figure how to ensure you actually vote Strategists predict powerful new technology will bring seismic shifts in U.S. political life Christina Pazzanese Harvard Staff Writer September 16, 2026 4 min read At a Harvard Kennedy School event Monday, strategists from both parties forecast that the 2028 presidential election will mark the start of a seismic and generational shift in U.S. politics as campaigns fully embrace the rapidly escalating power of AI. “It’ll be the first AI campaign, so the stakes are going to be unbelievably high,” said Doug Sosnik, a former Whi...

📅 2026-09-16 21:09:49    •    Harvard Gazette
Faces of MIT: Jay Wilcoxson
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Faces of MIT: Jay Wilcoxson

Jay Wilcoxson, counsel in the MIT Office of General Counsel (OGC), does not shy away from a crisis. In fact, he enjoys navigating uncertainty to steer a conflict toward an outcome that is beneficial to the Institute. Drawing on his background in private law practice and his love for problem-solving, Wilcoxson ensures his work supports MIT's mission and principles. After attending Boston University School of Law, Wilcoxson joined the Boston law firm Goodwin Procter LLP, specializing in commercial business litigation. While the work was interesting and challenging, there were aspects of law firm life that he didn’t love, and he expected to eventually shift to a role as an in-house lawyer. He h...

📅 2026-09-16 20:55:00    •    MIT News
“Technology is the equalizer”
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“Technology is the equalizer”

Mohammad Imran Khan Mewati teaches grades 6-12 at a school in rural India. His students are largely from economically disadvantaged families, and the school itself has limited resources. But the biggest problem, he says, is absenteeism. “If a student is not coming into your class, how are you going to teach?” says Mewati, a teacher for 26 years. “That’s why I’m using technology in my classroom and outside the classroom, so that they can learn a little bit using their smartphones.” MIT Open Learning’s free educational resources have been a boon for Mewati as he develops Hindi-language digital resources for his students. “I am a self-taught app developer,” he explains. “MIT Open Learning has h...

📅 2026-09-16 20:40:00    •    MIT News
What it’s really like to be young
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What it’s really like to be young

Illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Arts & Culture What it’s really like to be young Harvard faculty recommend books that capture youth in all its joy and agony Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent September 16, 2026 8 min read As the fall semester kicks in and students once again crowd the Square, Harvard faculty look back on favorite reads about youth — with a few choices from their own earlier days. “Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood” By Satya Doyle Byock The book asks young people to figure out their path through careful attention to their experiences and responses to opportunities and disappointments to see what really matters. The author, a Jungian psychologist, pr...

📅 2026-09-16 19:56:24    •    Harvard Gazette
Linda Bilmes is doing the math
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Linda Bilmes is doing the math

Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Nation & World Linda Bilmes is doing the math Kennedy School budget analyst has made it her life’s mission to elucidate the heavy toll of war: ‘If we don’t account for something, we don’t value it.’ Max Larkin Harvard Staff Writer September 16, 2026 9 min read Part of the Profiles of Progress series At a session of the Senate Appropriations Committee in July, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers that the first six months of the fitful war with Iran had cost taxpayers an estimated $37.5 billion. Or not exactly — a little less, he clarified. The estimate included “MILPAY, O&M and other anticipated costs through September 30.” In a rancorou...

📅 2026-09-16 19:55:06    •    Harvard Gazette
New artist residency program at MIT expands views of the cosmos
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New artist residency program at MIT expands views of the cosmos

MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) is launching a pilot artist-in-residence program to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue between art, science, and the public. MKI is a world-leading institution for research in astrophysics, combining more than 60 years of expertise in space and ground-based instrumentation development with the intellectual energy of MIT’s faculty, research and technical staff, and students in the departments of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; and Physics.During the 2026-27 academic year, internationally acclaimed ultra-contemporary artist Amy Karle will work as the program’s inaugural ar...

📅 2026-09-16 18:30:00    •    MIT News
Nanoscale mechanics could enable brain-inspired computing
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Nanoscale mechanics could enable brain-inspired computing

MIT researchers have created a new computing platform that could be used to develop intelligent and adaptive next-generation electronics that can simultaneously perform multiple functions, like computing and memory, all within one extremely compact, energy-efficient device.Such a platform opens opportunities for low-power edge computing applications, interactive medical and environmental monitoring systems, and smart robots.The researchers accomplished this by leveraging the unique mechanical response of soft polymers at the nanoscale. A mechanical response is how a structure changes when a force is applied to it. They harnessed this response to create tiny mechanical devices that use reconf...

📅 2026-09-16 18:00:00    •    MIT News
A star is born: half billion-year-old fossil rewrites the origin story of starfish
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A star is born: half billion-year-old fossil rewrites the origin story of starfish

A star is born: half billion-year-old fossil rewrites the origin story of starfish Sarah Collins Wed, 09/16/2026 - 16:00 The fossilised animals, discovered in southwestern China and named Yujingia glutenotunica, are thought to be close to the last common ancestor of ambulacrarians, the modern group that includes starfish, sea stars, sea urchins and acorn worms. The international research team, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, say the fossils could also help us understand why two closely-related lineages – starfish and their relatives, and chordates, the phylum that includes humans – evolved wildly different body plans over millions of years. The results are reported in...

📅 2026-09-16 15:00:00    •    Cambridge News