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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-sen…

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-…

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/astronome…

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-…

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…

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-row…

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/biologist…

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.

Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award news.mit.edu/2026/lifesavin…

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…

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

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…

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-mil…

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

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

In remembrance of the September 11 attacks, 25 years later.

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

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-he…

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-gi…

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/opi…