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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-…

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).

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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…

Craig Rowe soars to new heights

Aircraft mechanic Craig Rowe of MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Flight Test Facility is lead crew chief of the Gulfstream IV and oversaw its major modification over the past seven years — a leadership role...

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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…

Biologists identify a cellular pathway that allows colorectal cancer to metastasize

MIT biologists found that a high-fat diet drives colon cancer cells to switch on YAP1, a regenerative program required for the cancer to spread to the liver. Drugs blocking ceramide production could...

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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.
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…

Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

AI-GUIDE, an AI-assisted catheterization device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, was chosen for the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s 2026 Excellence in Technol...

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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-…

Photonics advance could enable compact, high-performance lidar sensors

MIT researchers demonstrated an advanced silicon-photonics chip-based system that could enable compact, durable, solid-state, high-performance lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles and other demand...

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Autumnal equinox will arrive today at 8:05 pm EDT. 🍁🍃 🍂
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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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

Study explores which pairings of people and AI agents perform best

Study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and MIT could pave the way for better hiring and team-building strategies

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To make qubits more reliable, researchers developed a new design that includes two separate but connected components: one which stores data and one which reaches out like an arm to interact with every other part of the quantum circuit. news.mit.edu/2026/new-qubit-…

New qubit architecture enables faster, more accurate operations

MIT researchers designed a qubit architecture that can enable qubits to interact with each other much faster while remaining very stable. This advance could help scientists build a larger-scale...

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MIT anthropologist Chris Walley developed a project for people in Southeast Chicago to tell their histories — an approach any community can adopt. news.mit.edu/2026/steel-mill…

Stories from the steel mills: A model for sharing workers’ histories

The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project, co-directed by MIT anthropologist Christine Walley, is an online repository of objects and images about the area’s former steel mills, labor...

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An MIT team has demonstrated a more efficient way to extract pure hydrogen gas from hydrogen carrier molecules. news.mit.edu/2026/electroche…

An electrochemical approach turns ammonia into pure hydrogen

MIT researchers developed a new way to extract pure hydrogen gas from ammonia. Their strategy reduces the amount of energy needed and could make it cheaper and easier to run hydrogen fuel cells.

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MIT Spinout Atlas Building Composites is turning plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-spinou…

MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

Atlas Building Composites, an MIT spinout, developed an AI-powered robotic manufacturing platform for recycling single-use plastics into durable building materials.

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In remembrance of the September 11 attacks, 25 years later.
The Great Dome lit blue.

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A burst of “pink noise” may lead to more restorative sleep. news.mit.edu/2026/pink-noise…

A burst of “pink noise” may lead to more restorative sleep

During sleep, exposure to short bursts of a staticky sound called “pink noise” can strengthen waves of cerebrospinal fluid, which clear debris from the brain, according to new research.

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Self-driving cars sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react rapidly to prevent a collision. To help humans better anticipate a vehicle’s mistakes, researchers from MIT and autonomous vehicle technology company Motional developed a new method that provides clear explanations of the underlying model’s decisions. news.mit.edu/2026/system-hel…

System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

The CW-Net technique explains the behavior of an autonomous vehicle, using concepts a human can easily understand. Researchers found these explanations helped drivers predict how a vehicle would...

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Each year, farmers around the world spend $80 billion on pesticides for their crops. Now, Robigo is equipping naturally occurring microbes with more potent pest-fighting capabilities. news.mit.edu/2026/robigo-giv…

Giving farmers a more sustainable way to protect crops

Led by MIT alumna Andee Wallace, Robigo uses biotechnology to engineer microbes to fight pests, reducing the need for more harmful chemical pesticides.

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Science is curiosity on a mission @MIT! 🧠
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Science is curiosity on a mission @MIT! 🧠
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In a new Boston Globe Opinion essay, MIT President Emeritus L. Rafael Reif calls for a simple, globally understood “moral floor” for AI: principles that keep people in ultimate control and prohibit deception, harm, exploitation, and evasion of human oversight. bostonglobe.com/2026/09/02/o…

AI needs a Ten Commandments - The Boston Globe

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly autonomous, we need a simple set of rules that everyone — not just technologists and lawyers — can understand.

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