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RT @GeneWeiLiLab: In our latest study, published in @MolecularCell, we reveal that mRNA sequences hundreds of nucleotides from the start co…
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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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Climate-driven sea level rise is making freshwater ecosystems saltier, and @MIT_Physics researchers have uncovered how that shift could reshape the microbial communities that sustain rivers and estuaries news.mit.edu/2026/how-influx…
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The universe keeps telling us that black holes exist in an "impossible" mass zone. That's leaving astronomers to find alternative origin stories for black holes via @gizmodo gizmodo.com/scientists-say-s…
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Congratulations to Pablo Jarillo-Herrero! The @MIT_Physics professor shares the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for foundational work that established the field of twistronics.” news.mit.edu/2026/pablo-jari…
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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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When Associate Professor Eliezer Calo PhD '11 was applying for faculty positions, he was drawn to MIT not only because it's his alma mater, but also because @MITBiology places high value on exploring fundamental questions in biology news.mit.edu/2026/studying-d…
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Scientists from @MIT_Physics have developed a new microscope that compresses terahertz light — which oscillates over a trillion times per second — down to microscopic dimensions news.mit.edu/2026/terahertz-…
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From 13 billion heavy-ion collisions, physicists identified about 2,000 events that produced a Z boson. For each, they mapped the energies throughout the short-lived quark-gluon plasma, and consistently observed a fluid-like pattern of splashes in swirls news.mit.edu/2026/study-infa…
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New work from researchers in @chemistryMIT "puts us one step closer to understanding how tinkering with cellular protein folding pathways can help with cancer treatment." news.mit.edu/2026/cancers-se…
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"Keeping MIT’s shared resources at the bleeding edge of science is critical to our ability to make a difference in the world." news.mit.edu/2025/core-probl…
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For 15 years, Ev Fedorenko's lab has captured functional brain imaging data as volunteers carried out various tasks inside an MRI scanner. Grad student Colton Casto revisited those scans to analyze cerebellar activity from more than 800 people news.mit.edu/2026/satellite-…
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"This new microscope now allows us to see a new mode of superconducting electrons that nobody has ever seen before," says @physics_MIT professor Nuh Gedik news.mit.edu/2026/terahertz-…
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Experiments whip up heavy ions close to the speed of light, at which point they smash together and produce a droplet of primordial soup, typically lasting for less than a quadrillionth of a second news.mit.edu/2026/study-infa…
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Researchers mapped enzyme sequences from several thousand modern species onto an evolutionary tree of life to find when the enzyme first emerged that enables organisms to use oxygen news.mit.edu/2026/some-early…
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Professor Camilla Cattania and @eapsmit graduate student Yudong Sun wondered: Could an earthquake reverse course along a simple fault? news.mit.edu/2026/new-study-…
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Determining the structure of the Tau tangles has been difficult because so much of the protein — about 80 percent — is found in their fuzzy coat, which tends to be highly disordered news.mit.edu/2026/chemists-d…
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Researchers in @chemistryMIT professor Matthew D. Shoulders’ lab have uncovered a sinister hidden mechanism that can allow cancer cells to survive even when hit with powerful drugs news.mit.edu/2026/cancers-se…
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In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. New findings show that quarks create wakes as they speed through the plasma, like a duck trailing ripples through water news.mit.edu/2026/study-infa…
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MIT physicists have used terahertz light to reveal inherent, quantum vibrations in a superconducting material, which have not been observable until now news.mit.edu/2026/terahertz-…
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