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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 15

For 75 years, MIT Lincoln Laboratory has been quietly shaping the future of U.S. national security. From Cold War air defense to cutting-edge space surveillance, it's where science meets mission-critical innovation. news.mit.edu/2025/mit-linco…

MIT's tweet card. The U.S. Air Force and MIT renewed their contract for operating MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The Department of Defense federally funded research and development center is a long-standing asset for defense...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 11

A new bionic knee outperforms other prostheses in helping people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles. In a small clinical study, users navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body. news.mit.edu/2025/bionic-kn…

MIT's tweet card. MIT researchers developed a new type of bionic knee that can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles more easily than they could with a traditional...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · 8 h

What if night vision could be as light as a pair of sunglasses? MIT scientists have developed a flexible “electronic skin” that could make ultra-thin, wearable night vision a reality. news.mit.edu/2025/new-elect…

MIT's tweet card. MIT engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy conditi...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 22

Meet the chemist who’s reimagining how we build molecules, one tiny tweak at a time. Alison Wendlandt is pioneering new ways to control chemical reactions, unlocking breakthroughs in medicine, materials, and more. news.mit.edu/2025/chemist-w…

MIT's tweet card. MIT chemist Alison Wendlandt designs tools to create mirror-image molecules known as enantiomers. Her group also works on changing molecules into different isomers, with an atom or chemical group in...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 21

By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews. news.mit.edu/2025/faster-wa…

MIT's tweet card. MIT researchers developed a machine-learning-guided technique to solve complex, long-horizon planning problems more efficiently than some traditional approaches, while arriving at an optimal solution...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 18

MIT researchers just unveiled a smarter way to study how treatments interact, potentially accelerating breakthroughs in cancer and genetic disease therapies. news.mit.edu/2025/more-effi…

MIT's tweet card. A new experimental design framework could enable scientists to efficiently estimate how combinations of interventions will affect a group of cells, reducing the cost of experiments and providing less...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 17

MIT’s new radar system shatters the limits of millimeter-wave tech. Meet WiSPR, a dual-use radar plus comms system that sees farther and clearer than ever at ultra-high frequencies. news.mit.edu/2025/radar-com…

MIT's tweet card. An MIT Lincoln Laboratory team developed and demonstrated the wideband selective propagation radar (WiSPR), a radar and communications system that extends signal range at millimeter-wave frequencies....

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 17

CodeSteer guides AI models to switch between text and code to solve tough problems. “A trainer may not be better than the star athlete … but the trainer can still give helpful suggestions,” Yongchao Chen says. “This steering method works for LLMs, too.” news.mit.edu/2025/smart-coa…

MIT's tweet card. CodeSteer is a smart assistant from MIT that automatically guides large language models to switch between generating text and code, and to refine its response, until it answers a query correctly.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 16

The Dodgers selected Mason Estrada with the 225th overall pick in the MLB draft. The 2025 MLB Draft is being held as part of MLB's All-Star week festivities in Atlanta, Georgia. mitathletics.com/news/2025/7/14…

MIT's tweet card. MIT baseball sophomore Mason Estrada (Covington, La.) was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the seventh round of the 2025 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft on Monday.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 15

Engineers have created a coin‑sized implant that Daniel Anderson says “is always ready to protect patients from low blood sugar.” It senses low glucose, heats a shape‑memory alloy, and releases glucagon - stabilizing blood sugar within 10 minutes. news.mit.edu/2025/implantab…

MIT's tweet card. MIT engineers developed an implantable reservoir that can remain under the skin and be triggered to release glucagon when people with diabetes are in danger of becoming hypoglycemic.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 14

Congratulations, Mason! ⚾️

MMIT Athletics@MITAthletics · Jul 14

MIT baseball sophomore Mason Estrada was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the seventh round of the 2025 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft on Monday. The Dodgers selected Estrada with the 225th overall pick in the MLB draft. mitathletics.com/news/2025/7/14…

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 14

What if your brain’s “object recognition” system is doing way more than just spotting your coffee mug? MIT scientists have found that the ventral visual stream might also handle spatial tasks like tracking where things are. This could reshape how we understand vision and AI.…

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 14

MIT scientists have discovered compounds that help your own cells fight off viruses like Zika, RSV, and herpes by supercharging a natural defense system. news.mit.edu/2025/scientist…

MIT's tweet card. MIT researchers identified compounds that can fight off viral infection by activating a defense pathway inside host cells. These compounds could be used as antiviral drugs that work against not just...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 11

New from MIT: What if AI could learn from sensitive data, like medical records or financial info, without risking your privacy? A new method called PAC Privacy does just that. It keeps AI accurate and secure, no trade-offs needed. news.mit.edu/2025/new-metho…

MIT's tweet card. MIT CSAIL researchers devised a way to maintain an AI model’s accuracy while ensuring attackers can’t extract sensitive information used to train it. The approach is computationally efficient,...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 10

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's hurricane-tracking tech is now powering a new era of weather forecasting. 🌪️🛰️ Their microwave sounders, once NASA prototypes, are now flying on Tomorrow.io’s CubeSats, revolutionizing how we predict storms. news.mit.edu/2025/lincoln-l…

MIT's tweet card. Tomorrow.io is transforming weather forecasting with a constellation of small satellites powered by MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s microwave sounder technology. Lincoln Laboratory and Tomorrow.io received...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 10

Aurelia Institute is on a mission to make space accessible to all people. Founded by a team from MIT, the nonprofit serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry. news.mit.edu/2025/supportin…

MIT's tweet card. At the heart of the Aurelia Institute’s mission is a commitment to making space accessible to all people. Founded by MIT alumna Ariel Ekblaw and others, the nonprofit serves as a research lab, an...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 9

While lanthanides are commonly used in fertilizers, little is known about how exactly they benefit plants. New insights could help farmers optimize their use, increasing critical crops’ resilience to UV stress and enhancing seedling growth. news.mit.edu/2025/study-sho…

MIT's tweet card. MIT researchers found fertilizer additives called lanthanides can increase plant resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling growth. Until now, little has been known about how these rare earth...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 8

What if your immune system could change your mood? MIT scientists just discovered that a molecule that fights infection—IL-17—can also tweak your brain: triggering anxiety or making you more social, depending on where it acts. news.mit.edu/2025/molecules…

MIT's tweet card. MIT scientists find the protein IL-17 that fights infection also acts on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability. This adds to evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 8

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. news.mit.edu/2025/qs-ranks-…

MIT's tweet card. MIT was named the top university in the world in the QS World University Rankings for the 14th straight year. The Institute was also ranked the world’s top university in 11 subject areas.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)@MIT · Jul 7

This new photonic processor uses light—not electricity—to run AI models, completing tasks in under half a nanosecond. ⚡ news.mit.edu/2024/photonic-…

MIT's tweet card. Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, using light. This advance could improve the speed...

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