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A former MIT class project is becoming an $850 million effort to manufacture a new kind of aircraft in Ohio. The company’s fixed-wing aircraft is designed to make travel easier, especially for people who don’t live in the vicinity of a major airport.
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This week is #NuclearScienceWeek, and an MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering researcher is proposing a way to detect nuclear weapons in space.
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In a @Nature paper, a team, including researchers in @MIT_CEE, reveals how communities of marine bacteria divide the task of degrading fucoidan, a key player in ocean carbon storage.
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A study in @nchembio led by SMART's Antimicrobial Resistance research group sheds light on how bacteria use RNA modification to control protein production, opening avenues to study bacterial adaptation and identify targets for antimicrobial treatments.
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Marzyeh Ghassemi, a core faculty member in @MIT_IMES and a professor in @MITEECS, is conducting research to ensure that medical AI models do not learn biased rules or recommendations, that in the end, can harm minority populations.
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An MIT student team won first prize in NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, a competition asking participants to develop recycling solutions that reduce space waste and improve the sustainability of lunar missions.
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Developing more cost-effective wind turbines requires controlled environments for researchers to conduct tests. Now a team, including researchers in @MIT_CEE, are using a wind tunnel that features high pressurization to simulate the real-world atmosphere.
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RNA vaccines — proven effective against Covid-19 and in development for cancer and other diseases — require ultracold storage. Using an AI algorithm, MIT researchers reformulated these vaccines to withstand higher temperatures.
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Engineers in @MITMechE have developed a design for a thin, muscle-powered robot that can swim through a simple watery maze, covering a distance of about four times its body length in one minute.
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This fall, astronaut and retired Air Force Colonel E. Michael Fincke ‘89 joined the faculty of @MITAeroAstro as a full-time Professor of the Practice.
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MIT researchers have developed a system that translates the components of a natural object into building blocks that can be used to design synthetic structures.
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Researchers in @mit_nse working with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have led one of the most detailed studies of the nuclear fuel U-10Zr (uranium alloyed with 10% zirconium by weight) to date.
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A team, including researchers in @MITAeroAstro, is exploring ways that habitats in extreme environments can support a person’s mental, emotional, and social wellbeing.
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Sidhant Kumar SM ’26, an @MIT_CEE graduate, co-founded the startup NZeroC AI to continuously monitor industrial plant camera footage and help avoid mistakes.
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In a @nchembio paper, a team, including researchers in @MITdeptofBE, has engineered bacteria that can function as transistors — switches that can turn current on or off in an electrical circuit.
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To help make CAR-T cell therapy accessible to more cancer patients, researchers at MIT have developed a new way to protect the cells from damage that can occur when they are frozen for storage and shipment.
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In a @NatureNano paper, a team, including researchers in @MITEECS, has developed a scalable fabrication technique that incorporates delicate molecular materials into electronic devices on a chip without causing damage.
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A new system co-developed by Lydia Bourouiba, a professor in @MIT_CEE, @MITMechE, and a core faculty member of @MIT_IMES, could become a global research standard to study diseases transmitted through the air.
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A team, including researchers in @MIT_CEE, has developed a way to 3D-print concrete while accounting for the physical limitations of large-scale concrete printers.
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A team, including researchers in @MITMechE, hopes to cut down on the growing mountain of textile waste, with a new, recyclable yarn.
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