<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Research & Development - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Research & Development news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Taking a swing at a pickleball startup]]></title><description><![CDATA[In corporate America, Stanley Anderson &rsquo;79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances.&nbsp;He did not.&ldquo;I spent my early years trying not to get recruited into gangs, getting shot at, watching my friends get murdered, and thinking that if I don&rsquo;t leave, I will die,&rdquo; says Anderson, who was raised in Chicago. &ldquo;I was fortunate to survive.&rdquo;But he thrived, building an impressive career at the likes of HP, Intel, and the Palo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/taking-a-swing-at-a-pickleball-startup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/taking-a-swing-at-a-pickleball-startup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robotic therapy for stroke patients]]></title><description><![CDATA[Strokes leave 5 million people with long-term impairments each year, and a growing shortage of physical therapists makes it hard for them to get the care they need. A new approach tries to solve that problem by combining artificial intelligence and human therapy.&nbsp;Johannes Lachner, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Purdue University, and Noah Geiger, a former visiting student at MIT, developed a robotic system that uses generative AI and real-time force feedback to le]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/robotic-therapy-for-stroke-patients/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/robotic-therapy-for-stroke-patients/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nebraska native explores galaxies far, far away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Growing up on a small farm in Nebraska, Megan Donahue &rsquo;85 discovered the wider world by reading her way through her local library. Today, she is learning how the wider universe works by studying galaxy clusters.Donahue discovered her passion for physics in that library at age 12 and started her path into astronomy thanks to &ldquo;a providential interaction.&rdquo; Through MIT&rsquo;s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, she got introduced to cutting-edge x-ray imaging&mdash;work]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/nebraska-native-explores-galaxies-far-far-away/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/nebraska-native-explores-galaxies-far-far-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melt it, spin it, use it again]]></title><description><![CDATA[The average American throws out around 81 pounds of clothing each year, and there are few options for recycling it. MIT engineers hope to cut down on that textile waste with a new type of yarn.&nbsp;The thermoplastic yarn mimics the properties of conventional elastic yarns, which typically combine spandex with polyester or nylon. Those fibers would have to be separated for recycling&mdash;a process that isn&rsquo;t practical. But the MIT team found a way to create a similarly stretchy yarn from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/melt-it-spin-it-use-it-again/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/melt-it-spin-it-use-it-again/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics&mdash;or so one might assume. Yet birds like gulls and puffins can plunge into the sea, swim underwater, and leap back into the air to fly away. And now engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have designed a robot that can do likewise.&nbsp;The &ldquo;flapping-wing aerial-aquatic vehicle,&rdquo; or FAAV, weighs less than 300 grams (about half a pound) and is equipped w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-robo-puffin/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-robo-puffin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here’s the tea]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he had no reason to doubt its story. Descendants of the Boston blacksmith Thomas Wells had donated the label in 1987, saying it had been recovered after colonial protesters threw tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.&nbsp;But after a year of research, Brown reached a different conclusion: The label was made nearly a century later. The decisive clue came when he r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/heres-the-tea/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/heres-the-tea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reason to eat carbs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can help some people lose weight, and some research has shown that it may protect against colon cancer. But a new study suggests that such a ketogenic diet may also increase the risk of cancer in the small intestine.This type of diet forces the body to burn fatty acids instead of carbohydrates for fuel, producing by-products called ketone bodies. One of these, BHB, was thought to be responsible for the protective effect observed against colon cancer.Omer Yilmaz,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-reason-to-eat-carbs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-reason-to-eat-carbs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good TA: priceless]]></title><description><![CDATA[These are images of quizzes I took in 3.091, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, in the fall of 1980.One is my very first exam at MIT, and getting 49 out of 100 was a soul-crushing experience. I can still picture the TA, Leszek Pawlowicz, PhD &rsquo;87, returning my paper. He had a big smile on his face, and he said something to the effect of &ldquo;I expect to see you double your score on the next quiz!&rdquo;&nbsp;Well, I got the message. Studying at MIT was not like studying in high school]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-good-ta-priceless/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-good-ta-priceless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cleaner path to rare earth metals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom&aacute;s Villal&oacute;n Jr. &rsquo;14 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family came from&mdash;Monterrey, Mexico, a steel manufacturing and metal fabrication hub. Even as a child, he realized it was problematic to breathe that air.&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m motivated because I&rsquo;ve seen what metal-making does,&rdquo; says Villal&oacute;n, who majored in materials science and engineering. He started thinking about sustainable metallurgy se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-cleaner-path-to-rare-earth-metals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-cleaner-path-to-rare-earth-metals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A champion for brain injury patients]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alissa Totman &rsquo;13 was a sophomore when she joined MIT BrainTrust, a student-run organization that connects Institute undergraduates and people with brain injuries for support and socializing. &ldquo;That group was a great way to learn about the human experience of what people go through when they experience a brain injury,&rdquo; she says. And it laid the foundation for her life&rsquo;s work.Today, Totman is a physician specializing in brain injury medicine at the University of Pittsburgh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-champion-for-brain-injury-patients/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-champion-for-brain-injury-patients/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrolab’s upcoming rover will run the first LLMs on the moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Large language models are set to go lunar. A computer capable of running AI software is one of the payloads aboard Astrolab&rsquo;s FLIP lunar rover, which is slated to head to Earth&rsquo;s celestial companion as early as November 2026.The 480-kilogram FLIP rover, short for &ldquo;FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform,&rdquo; is the first in a series of vehicles NASA&rsquo;s contracted from Astrolab, including future buggies that will move Artemis astronauts across the moon&rsquo;s surface. Fitted wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/astrolabs-upcoming-rover-will-run-the-first-llms-on-the-moon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/astrolabs-upcoming-rover-will-run-the-first-llms-on-the-moon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new economics of enterprise AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency &mdash; consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from &ldquo;can we use it?&rdquo; to &ldquo;how efficiently are we using it?&rdquo;Enterprise AI is going through the same shift. What began as isolated chatbot and copilot experiments is becoming a foundational layer of t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-new-economics-of-enterprise-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-new-economics-of-enterprise-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Download: the claim shaking up AI and the internet’s agent problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is today&rsquo;s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&rsquo;s going on in the world of technology.&ldquo;We were looking at it wrong&rdquo;: The explosive claim that&rsquo;s upended the AI world&ldquo;I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.&rdquo; With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-the-claim-shaking-up-ai-and-the-internets-agent-problem/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/the-download-the-claim-shaking-up-ai-and-the-internets-agent-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption&ndash;tech is just the first industry in line.As generative AI and automation tools mature, the shifts currently reshaping software engineering and product management will inevitably filter into healthcare, education, retail, and manufacturing. The variation in adoption rates today isn&rsquo;t a sign t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/ai-adoption-by-industry-shows-what-other-sectors-can-learn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/ai-adoption-by-industry-shows-what-other-sectors-can-learn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to study a swiftly melting climate disaster]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andrew Haverdink, a tall grad student in a rain bib and rubber boots, wrenched a double-handed drill from the frozen soil that underlies much of Alaska&rsquo;s Denali National Park and then unclipped the hollow barrel from the end of the bit.&nbsp;He knelt in front of a blue tarp, lined the barrel up with a plastic tray, and pushed a rod through the opposite end. A perfect solid, cylindrical core of ancient soil emerged&mdash;dark, rich permafrost at least a foot long.On that late morning in ea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-to-study-a-swiftly-melting-climate-disaster/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/how-to-study-a-swiftly-melting-climate-disaster/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the fall of 2025, Jeff Dodge set up a six-foot folding table in the cafeteria of Cane Bay High School in Summerville, South Carolina, to conduct a taste test. When the first rush of about 150 hungry students hit, he was waiting with slow cookers filled with steaming marinara sauce and meatballs.&nbsp;Kids love a taste test, but they&rsquo;re also discerning, and Dodge wasn&rsquo;t sure what they would make of his product, a blend featuring both meat and mushrooms. As students swarmed the tabl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/these-startups-hope-blended-food-will-cut-our-appetite-for-red-meat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/these-startups-hope-blended-food-will-cut-our-appetite-for-red-meat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub]]></title><description><![CDATA[_____________<br />
THE PLACE<br />
Pyeongtaek,<br />
South KoreaGenerative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Construction of a fifth was halted during a drop in demand for memory chips in 2024 but restarted when the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-visit-to-samsungs-massive-new-semiconductor-hub/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/a-visit-to-samsungs-massive-new-semiconductor-hub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support, says court filing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/ex-openai-worker-accused-of-planting-device-had-saudi-support-says-court-filing/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/ex-openai-worker-accused-of-planting-device-had-saudi-support-says-court-filing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else]]></title><description><![CDATA[This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first,&nbsp;sign up here.Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to perform automated tasks, like capturing the content of web pages, but rules govern what they can access and how they behave. The web, after all, is designed primarily for people, even if we occasionally have to solve puzzles and cap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/making-the-internet-better-for-ai-agents-might-make-it-worse-for-everyone-else/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/making-the-internet-better-for-ai-agents-might-make-it-worse-for-everyone-else/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US bans China's DeepSeek from government in race for AI dominance]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Chinese technology is removed from most US government agencies as race for AI dominance steps up.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/us-bans-chinas-deepseek-from-government-in-race-for-ai-dominance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/research-and-development/us-bans-chinas-deepseek-from-government-in-race-for-ai-dominance/</guid></item></channel></rss>