Myriam Heiman named the director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Heiman, who studies neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, will lead the institute beginning July 1. https://t.co/olQ9kX6xw0 #neuroscience@ScienceMIT
Researchers in the Peng Lab use custom-built microscopy and nanotechnology to tag and follow the activity of individual proteins in real time.
https://t.co/t4XEua4rCQ
Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission
Congratulations to Class of 2026 Seniors Eric Bi, Katelyn Howard, Nina Petulla, Jason Schuler, Alex Tang, Titus Tsai, and Amy Wang, who have all been selected for induction into @PhiBetaKappa!
https://t.co/6lh4mkHxX1
Joey Davis' work has helped reveal that unlike building a house, which happens in a prescribed sequence of steps — pouring the foundation, building the frame, putting on the roof — ribosomes can be assembled in a more flexible way.
Understanding how these structures form and later break down could help researchers learn more about how disruptions of these fundamental processes can lead to disease. https://t.co/p3LyPhsphf
Old hack, new tricks: The Green Building Tetris hack is up and running again, thanks to the dedication of a collection of MIT students who were willing to sink countless hours and resources into redesigning the hardware.
https://t.co/ufwLrGQ0bX
Celebrating AAPI month with voices from across continents, cultures, and generations.
The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas premieres May 13 on @hbomax. #TheAListHBO
Researchers in the Cummins and Gilliard Labs have captured an elusive boron-oxygen ring. This discovery could expand the chemistry of boron-based reagents, providing new tools for oxidation reactions in synthesis and materials science.
https://t.co/jeRP7Mtwqb
Scientists have confirmed the detection of organic molecules on Mars. They were found in a sample collected by NASA's Curiosity Rover and analyzed using the rover's on-board mini lab called the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM).
https://t.co/ygY5BGDKRq
Congratulations to Professor Brett McGuire, who, alongside @MITEECS Professor Jacob Andreas, has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award.
https://t.co/Dxeimb4RrI
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!
Simon Friedman '89, a Curators Distinguished Professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, has led the work to develop materials that can hold a well of insulin under the skin until activated by light.
https://t.co/3k6fKO4MPG
Researchers at MIT are revealing new populations of asteroids, including smaller ones that could pose a danger to our space infrastructure. Prof Julien de Wit and research scientists Artem Burdanov and Saverio Cambioni break it down on GBH
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What does it mean that @SaraPrescott6 is "Committed to Caring"? She cultivates a lab where students can think boldly while feeling genuinely supported, and where they are seen not only as researchers, but as whole people. Read more: https://t.co/hWE4kkDP3D @MITBiology@ScienceMIT
Samples collected from asteroid Ryugu contain nucleobases, commonly called the building blocks of life. They have also been found from samples collected from asteroid Bennu, suggesting that the chemical ingredients for life may be common beyond Earth.
https://t.co/QuyMw0fMOR
We're excited to share that MIT Chemistry has received a #1 rankling by QS World University Rankings (@worlduniranking) for 2026!
@MIT has been ranked as the No. 1 university in the world by QS World University Rankings for 14 straight years.
https://t.co/0GLuV8cgE1
What does the future hold for #weather and #climate in New England and beyond? In an interview with Boston Globe reporter Joshua Miller, MIT CS3 Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser highlights what we can expect from the global to the local.
https://t.co/fKMcYMost7
Congratulations to Chemistry Research Specialist Dr. Gang Liu, who has been chosen to receive a 2026 MIT Excellence Award in the category of Outstanding Contributor!
https://t.co/GpFAhnvUMm