Medical and Pharmaceutical MIT continues advancing ‘PlasmoSniff’ pneumonia breath test The prestigious school is one of a select few active with breath sampling tech for this infection Rowan DunneJune 25, 2026
Medical and Pharmaceutical MIT and Harvard crack decades-old chemistry puzzle tied to cancer therapy The team gained new insight into why verticillin A resisted previous efforts Joseph MortonJanuary 7, 2026
AI and Autonomy MIT determines that AI could already replace 11.7% of American workers The determination was made by running a simulation tool called the Iceberg Index Rowan DunneNovember 27, 2025
Sleep MIT lab unveils intelligent ‘FiberCircuits’ tech at private event It gives flexible materials autonomous intelligence Rowan DunneNovember 12, 2025
Medical and Pharmaceutical Mark Zuckerberg backs AI-biology project to predict, prevent, and treat disease When Biohub began its goal was to help scientists cure or prevent all diseases this century Joseph MortonNovember 7, 2025
Medical and Pharmaceutical Owlstone Medical gets up to US$49.1M to develop multi-cancer breath tests Urine samples will also be examined to detect various solid tumours Rowan DunneOctober 7, 2025
Alternative Energy Japan launches new experimental nuclear fusion reactor A tokamak uses powerful magnetic fields to confine plasma—superheated hydrogen isotopes—within a vacuum chamber Joseph MortonFebruary 5, 2025
Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Cambridge develops ‘zombie cell’ detecting lung cancer urine test It is not the first pee test used to help diagnose the disease, but it is the first of its kind Rowan DunneDecember 6, 2024
Alternative Energy Nuclear plant shutdown would create devastating consequences in fossil fuel levels: MIT study If renewable energy sources became widely available as alternative supplies to the electricity grid, air pollution could be reduced Joseph MortonApril 12, 2023
Sleep Emerald Innovations receives funding to develop contactless sleep disorder aid device Emerald is developing radio wave sensors capable of analyzing sleep disruptions in patients with Rett syndrome Rowan DunneFebruary 24, 2023