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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

@MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world leader in research and education. Related accounts: @MITevents @MITstudents @MIT_alumni
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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.
    Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its movement as it bends and twists
    From news.mit.edu
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    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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    Oct 7
    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-…
    Margaret Hamilton is reclined inside a NASA spacecraft module, surrounded by control panels and switches.
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  • @MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    @MIT
    Oct 6
    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.
    Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away
    From news.mit.edu
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  • @MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    @MIT
    Oct 5
    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.
    The next generation’s guide to the new space economy
    From news.mit.edu
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  • @MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    @MIT
    Oct 2
    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.
    MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
    From news.mit.edu
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