In a large, open space on the first floor of 750 Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a carbon-capture company is heating up molten salts to 600 degrees Celsius right next to a quantum computing company's device for supercooling qubits. The difference is about 900 degrees across 15 feet. It doesn't take long in the tour of The Engine Accelerator to realize this isn't your typical co-working space. Companies here are working at the extremes to develop new technologies with world-changing impact ' what The Engine Accelerator's leaders call 'tough tech.' Comprising four floors and 150,000 square feet next door to MIT's campus, the new space offers startups specialized lab equipment, advanced machining, fabrication facilities, office space, and a range of startup support services. 'The infrastructure has always been a really important accelerant for getting these kinds of companies off and running,' The Engine Accelerator President Emily Knight says. 'Now you can start a company...
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