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AI has reshaped materials science by proposing new structures. But many potential structures are stored in databases, inaccessible to large language models. To overcome this, researchers created a vision-language model for crystalline materials. news.mit.edu/2026/giving-ai-…
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Researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) analyzed over 15,000 ice cliffs in Antarctica to reveal how they behave over time. news.mit.edu/2026/satellite-…
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A new technique significantly improves weather forecasting beyond two weeks. The researchers developed a machine-learning model that learns to correct errors in existing forecasting models to improve their output over the two-to-six-week time frame, including for extreme weather events. news.mit.edu/2026/researcher…
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MIT engineers have developed a new way to program natural killer (NK) immune cells to target cancerous T cells or T cells that have become autoreactive, leading to diseases such as lymphoma and autoimmune hepatitis. news.mit.edu/2026/reprogramm…
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Rather than asking what AI can do, ImpactBench asks what AI does to people: how it shapes human psychology, autonomy, and wellbeing. media.mit.edu/posts/research…
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Economists Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 share Nobel prize: The MIT alumni are honored for work that illuminates how government policy can spur growth in response to economic downturns. news.mit.edu/2026/robert-hal…
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Congratulations to Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83! 👏
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”
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“In physical therapy, you often need to gather patient data on how they are moving and stretching their arm during rehabilitation. Surface shape sensing could be very useful in that way,” says graduate student Qifan Yu. news.mit.edu/2026/shape-sens…
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We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-h…
ALT Margaret Hamilton is reclined inside a NASA spacecraft module, surrounded by control panels and switches.
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Observations of a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf show a new way that stars and their planetary companions can interact: “Instead of swallowing the thing up, the star can gradually eat it, for billions of years,” Kevin Burdge says. news.mit.edu/2026/astronomer…
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A report developed by MIT students, based on both existing research and interviews with current aerospace professionals, serves as a guide for founders and investors in the industry. news.mit.edu/2026/guide-to-n…
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The startup Encora Therapeutics began as a project in 2.009, MIT’s iconic product-design class, to help people with Parkinson’s disease. Now, nine years later, the FDA has cleared Encora’s device to help adults with essential tremor. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-…
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Since 2015, Craig Rowe has been the lead crew chief of the Gulfstream IV, part of the aircraft fleet at MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Flight Test Facility (FTF) on Hanscom Air Force Base. "These aircraft are test beds for the U.S. Department of War," Rowe says. news.mit.edu/2026/craig-rowe…
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Most colon cancer deaths are caused by the spread of tumor cells beyond the colon, usually to the liver. In a new study, MIT biologists identified a cellular pathway necessary for colorectal cancer metastasis. Drugs that block the pathway may help prevent metastasis. news.mit.edu/2026/biologists…
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Did you know the original Claude — the chatbot’s namesake, according to Anthropic lore — was a renowned MIT professor? Claude Shannon SM ’40, PhD ’40, who taught at MIT from 1956 until his retirement in 1978, was known to many as the father of information theory and of modern digital communications.
ALT At left, grayscale photo of an older Claude Shannon posing at a blackboard. At right, color photo of a bust of Shannon, pensive and looking down, in front of glass windows on a sunny day.
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Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award news.mit.edu/2026/lifesaving…
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A new study from MIT researchers could help to enable next-generation lidar sensors that are compact, durable, and have no moving parts. The key advance is a novel design for a silicon-photonics chip, which is a semiconductor device that manipulates light rather than electricity. news.mit.edu/2026/photonics-…
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Autumnal equinox will arrive today at 8:05 pm EDT. 🍁🍃 🍂
ALT A tree with yellow leaves stands in front of a modern glass building under a clear blue sky. The sun shines brightly through the branches.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) retweeted
New study from Johns Hopkins and @MIT shows that the personality pairing between a person and their AI agent affects the quality and real-world performance of what they create together. Extraverted humans and conscientious AI produced the lowest-quality ads. bit.ly/4hAdhNC
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