Steam power + agentic AI + remembering Richard Hynes

By rahmat hidayat

Senin, 26 Januari 2026

view in browser MIT Daily January 26, 2026 Greetings! This month we are on an abbreviated winter schedule, publishing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays through MIT’s Independent Activities Period. Now, here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Steam Power “Steam is the most important working fluid ever,” Addison Stark SM ’10, PhD ’14 says. His startup AtmosZero has developed a modular heat pump that produces industrial steam, offering a drop-in electrical replacement for conventional combustion boilers. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines How to navigate the age of agentic AI A new report identifies four tensions that organizations must manage when rolling out agentic artificial intelligence. Full story via MIT Sloan→ Richard Hynes, a pioneer in the biology of cellular adhesion, dies at 81 Professor, mentor, and leader at MIT for more than 50 years shaped fundamental understandings of cell adhesion, the extracellular matrix, and molecular mechanisms of metastasis. Full story via MIT News → Chemists determine the structure of the fuzzy coat that surrounds Tau proteins Learning more about this structure could help scientists find ways to block Tau from forming tangles in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients. Full story via MIT News → Study: More eyes on the skies will help planes reduce climate-warming contrails Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mitmochamoves on Instagram→ In the Media Leading with T1D, featuring university presidents Sally Kornbluth (MIT) and Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins) // Diabetics Doing Things In an appearance on the “Diabetics Doing Things” podcast, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels discuss their experience as Type 1 diabetics, the importance of scientific research to diagnoses and treatments that have impacted millions of fellow Type 1 diabetics across the country, and the impact on their own lives of decades of advances made at leading research universities like theirs. In conversation with host Rob Howe, they reflect on the salience of standing up for the scientific enterprise. Full story via Diabetics Doing Things→ Watch This A new episode of Veritasium, a YouTube channel focused on science and engineering, explores the art of slowing time through strobe photography and slow motion. With help from the Edgerton Center at MIT, the video tells the story of legendary professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton’s most iconic photographs, replicating several of his notable experiments using a mix of contemporary and Edgerton-era equipment. The Veritasium team also visits with MIT graduate student Nikhil Behari, whose research involves image capture in the neighborhood of 1 trillion frames per second. The episode was created, in part, by writer-director Leah Sullivan “Sulli” Yost ’22, who double majored in mathematics and writing at MIT. Watch the video→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by a lesson on how not to burn your money. 🔥 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.ikut@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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