Official account of the @MIT School of Science

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Congratulations to Nergis Mavalvala PhD '97, Dean of the MIT School of Science and Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics, on being named to the 2026 @Forbes 50 Over 50! #ForbesOver50 forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgra…
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At the 2026 NASA Red Sox STEM day, over 4,000 students and teachers learned about NASA’s missions before attending an afternoon game. The @TESSatMIT traveling transit model made the trip to Fenway to demonstrate how TESS searches for planets around distant stars!
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The clock is ticking down to MIT’s 24-Hour Challenge on 3.12.26. Save the date to join the worldwide MIT community in supporting the Institute’s efforts to create a positive impact on our nation and world mit24hourchallenge.mightycau…
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On rare occasions, seismologists have observed quakes that reverse direction. A new study by @eapsMIT researchers predicts that these "boomerang" earthquakes can occur even along simple faults news.mit.edu/2026/new-study-…

ALT Cartoon shows an earthquake blast that starts at the left end of a fault and moves to the right. Then a secondary earthquake blast shoots out, from behind the first, to the left.

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John Urschel – @MITMath professor and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens – joined The Curiosity Desk to talk about his love of his family, linear algebra, and football piped.video/watch?v=LFVXCGgR…
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"It's important to really work on what you want to work on, what you believe in, and to have the confidence that if you think it's interesting, it's interesting." 🎥 Watch Professor Moungi Bawendi on The World at MIT piped.video/CuHmbZxuTm4?si=UJ3v…
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"The tools that we can bring to bear now on studying this epoch of cosmic history are unlike anything we’ve had before," says @MITKavli's Rob Simcoe via @KnowableMag buff.ly/3PssqSi
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Dean Nergis Mavalvala didn’t break a sweat at a “Meet and Heat” event hosted by the Physics Graduate Student Council and PhysREFS, where she answered questions from @MIT_Physics graduate students about her life and career while sampling increasingly spicy cauliflower wings 🌶️
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MIT professors and 2024 @KavliPrize Laureates Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager celebrate #KavliPrizeWeek in Oslo, Norway 📷 Yngve Vogt/UiO
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Nergis Mavalvala found a perfect fit at MIT and calls her position as the Marble Professor of Astrophysics and Dean of the School of Science "the best job in the world." piped.video/watch?v=y1Mh4vBE…
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CHARMed collaboration creates a potent therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases news.mit.edu/2024/charmed-co…
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Congratulations to this year’s School of Science master’s and doctoral graduates! 🎓 #MIT2024 📷 Steph Stevens
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Lydia Villa-Komaroff PhD '75 — scientist, businesswoman, and founding member of SACNAS — will address our 2024 master’s and doctoral graduates during the School of Science Advanced Degree Ceremony 🎓 Learn more: science.mit.edu/resource/sch…
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Viewing the eclipse from Eastman Court 😎
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Today’s sessions concluded with an insightful panel on the future of @eapsMIT
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Paul O’Gorman and team present on “Preparing for a new world of weather and climate extremes.” They will build a scalable toolkit for communities and stakeholders to prepare and adapt
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Noelle Selin and team present on “Bringjng computation to the climate challenge,” which aims to increase the accuracy and accessibility of climate models
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Richard Teague, Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in @eapsMIT, studies how planets form and leads the exoALMA collaboration exoalma.com/team
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Tanja Bosak, professor of geobiology in @eapsMIT, explains all that scientists could learn from Jezero Crater samples collected by @NASAPersevere
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Today, @eapsMIT celebrates its 40th anniversary with a symposium taking a look at the past, present, and future
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Make your gift & make a brighter future! mit24hourchallenge.mightycau…
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Mark Horowitz '71, @MITMath and @MITEECS alum, made the batons Bradley Cooper uses in "Maestro" alum.mit.edu/slice/bradley-c…
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Moungi Bawendi, 2023 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Lester Wolfe Professor of @ChemistryMIT, recounts his first paper at MIT in a standing-room lecture
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Congratulations to @ChemistryMIT and @eapsMIT Professor Susan Solomon on the 2023 VinFuture Award for Female Innovators! "Today's problem of climate change is for all of us to be involved in solving," says Solomon news.mit.edu/2024/susan-solo…
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"Everyone looks at the stars. Everyone looks at the moon. Everybody wonders about the universe," says cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König. "I’m trying to understand it with math." science.mit.edu/everything-e…
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Glycoscience explained: The sugar coating of life science.mit.edu/explained-th…
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According to Jay Stein PhD ’68, the Jay A. Stein (1968) Professorship of Biology at MIT "is a way to pass the baton of science, from one generation to the next—hopefully, forever." science.mit.edu/passing-the-…
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Read about breakthroughs and the culmination of decades-long research in the winter 2024 issue of our Science@MIT magazine science.mit.edu/sciencemit-w…
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The @Cajalclub has named Elly Nedivi, William R. and Linda R. Young Professor of Neuroscience in @MIT_Picower, the 2023 recipient of the Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award honoring outstanding established investigators studying the cerebral cortex news.mit.edu/2023/award-hono…
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Congratulations to @MITBiology professor Gene-Wei Li and @MITdeptofBE + @kochinstitute professor Michael Birnbaum on being named Pew Innovation Fund investigators! news.mit.edu/2023/two-mit-re…
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RIBOmap detects localized translation in the somata (blue) and processes (red) of cells in intact brain tissue @broadinstitute @ChemistryMIT news.mit.edu/2023/scientists…
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Ellen Swallow Richards poses for a portrait with a feline friend #InternationalCatDay
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This graphic from MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center research scientist Hang Chi represents a two-dimensional material, squeezing and stretching leads to positive and negative signs of the anomalous Hall effect, represented by arrows news.mit.edu/2023/new-quantu…
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If the neurons are musicians in an orchestra, the brain regions are their sections, and the memory is the music they produce, then the electric field is the conductor
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On the latest episode of #CuriousityUnbounded, President Kornbluth talks with @eapsMIT professor Greg Fournier about our understanding of evolution; life in the lab; and advice for those just beginning a career in science. Listen now --> news.mit.edu/podcast/podcast…
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In the Alzheimer’s affected brain, abnormal collections of the tau protein accumulate and form tangles (seen in blue) within neurons, harming synaptic communication between nerve cells news.mit.edu/2023/how-tau-ta…
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View the latest job openings in the MIT School of Science --> careers.peopleclick.com/care…
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"To be able to perform gut optogenetics and then measure the effects on brain function and behavior, which requires millisecond precision, we needed a device that didn’t exist. So, we decided to make it." news.mit.edu/2023/unraveling…
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Under certain conditions, some materials shift their structure to unlock new, superconducting behavior. This shift is known as a "nematic transition" news.mit.edu/2023/physicists…
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These flexible fibers can be used to manipulate and monitor the connections between the brain and the digestive tract news.mit.edu/2023/unraveling…
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Researchers in @MITMath and @MITMechE designed and fabricated a number of transformable, 2D kirigami structures, including a triangle that morphs into a heart news.mit.edu/2023/kirigami-i…

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The MIT School of Science is hiring! View our current job openings today --> careers.peopleclick.com/care…
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While a great deal of research has gone into training computer models to infer someone’s emotional state based on their facial expression, that is not the most important aspect of human emotional intelligence, says Professor Rebecca Saxe news.mit.edu/2023/computatio…
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Congratulations, graduates! 🎓
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While Omer Yilmaz spends most of his time at MIT, he also devotes six to eight weeks per year to his work at MGH, where he is an associate pathologist: "I enjoy my clinical work, and it always reminds me about the importance of the research we do." news.mit.edu/2023/omer-yilma…
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Congratulations to the 2023 Infinite Mile and Infinite Expansion Award winners, nominated by their peers for their exceptional contributions to the School of Science science.mit.edu/about/awards…
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Hakeem Oluseyi — astrophysicist, President of the National Society of Black Physicists, and former MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT — will address our 2023 master’s and doctoral graduates during the School of Science Advanced Degree Ceremony 🎓 Learn more: bit.ly/3sPlKmz
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In a first, researchers have observed a star swallowing a planet #MayThe4thBeWithYou piped.video/BsBwm3DpVxg
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The MIT School of Science is hiring. Learn more about current job openings: careers.peopleclick.com/care…
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Prizes are awarded annually to School of Science faculty who demonstrate excellence in teaching science.mit.edu/about/awards…
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As a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at MIT, Juliana García-Mejía will fashion innovative astronomical instruments to discover and characterize terrestrial exoplanets around small, cool stars news.mit.edu/2023/mit-welcom…
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"In the debate over keeping nuclear power plants open, air quality has not been a focus of that discussion," says Noelle Selin, a professor in @eapsMIT and @mitidss news.mit.edu/2023/study-shut…
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Since @NASA_TESS launched in 2018, George Ricker and his team have detected more than 6,000 planet candidates, including approximately 500 with their masses now established news.mit.edu/2023/planet-hun…
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"In order to accelerate computational discovery of materials, we need better methods for removing uncertainty and making our predictions more accurate," says Associate Professor Heather J. Kulik PhD ’09 news.mit.edu/2023/mining-rig…
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Mercy Oladipo, a senior in @MITBiology and @MITEECS, is the cofounder of Birth By Us, a pregnancy and postpartum app built by and for Black women news.mit.edu/2023/mercy-olad…
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