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Researchers led by Professor @AlisonWendlandt have developed a precision technique that allows scientists to seamlessly relocate alcohol functional groups from one spot on a molecule to a neighboring site. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-news…

New discovery! Different anesthetics all seem to push the brain into unconsciousness in the same way: Activity is destabilized and dominated by slow waves. This could block signals. cell.com/cell-reports/f… #neuroscience @MIT_Picower @mitbrainandcog @mcgovernmit @ScienceMIT

Li-Huei Tsai, who has led The Picower Institute since 2009, will step down as director at the end of the academic year. Her decision frees her to focus on research, including her leadership of MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative and the Alana Down Syndrome Center picower.mit.edu/news/after-16-…

Now on @MITOCW - CS3 Lecture Series: Fundamentals of Climate Science and Policy. Presented by MIT CS3 students & postdocs in January, this series explores the Earth’s #climate system, its societal impacts, and efforts to minimize those impacts. tinyurl.com/bdcppzsj

Excited to announce a new paper from our lab, by Ian Griffith @ianmgriffith with help from Preston Hess @phess2, introducing a model of attentional selection. nature.com/articles/s4156… @mitbcs @ScienceMIT @mcgovernmit @SHBTHarvard Here is a summary. (1/n)

The clock is ticking down to MIT’s 24-Hour Challenge on 3.12.26. Save the date to join the worldwide MIT community in supporting the Institute’s efforts to create a positive impact on our nation and world. mit24hourchallenge.mightycause.com/story/Mit-Chem…

Congrats to EAPS Prof Richard Teague on being invited to give the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture at this year's AAS meeting! He's been selected for his pioneering work on protoplanetary disk motion using @almaobs. @AAS_Office @KavliFoundation buff.ly/MCsBjCS

Last night @Chronicle5 aired an update on local technologies to help people with Alzheimer's, including by Li-Huei Tsai's lab wcvb.com/article/alzhei…

Marine snow — the dust and detritus from decomposing organisms — is the main vehicle by which the ocean stores carbon. But hitchhiking bacteria may prevent it from sinking into the deep ocean, limiting how much carbon the ocean can actually store. buff.ly/UtKV7Kq

The clock is ticking down to MIT’s 24-Hour Challenge on 3.12.26. Save the date to join the worldwide MIT community in supporting the Institute’s efforts to create a positive impact on our nation and world mit24hourchallenge.mightycause.com/story/School-O…

When Associate Professor Eliezer Calo PhD '11 was applying for faculty positions, he was drawn to MIT not only because it's his alma mater, but also because @MITBiology places high value on exploring fundamental questions in biology news.mit.edu/2026/studying-…

MIT scientists have found a way to identify the specific signal of wildfires and volcanic eruptions from the atmosphere, helping answer questions about how different injected materials from events like these influence global temperatures. buff.ly/BEzxl3W

When an earthquake reverses course and travels back through an area it's known as a "boomerang" earthquake. Scientists have assumed that they required complex fault zones to happen, but new research out of EAPS finds they can also occur on simple faults. buff.ly/TO8WhiR

🚨MIT Students, we want you! 🚨 Calling all MIT undergraduate and graduate students to apply for our Student Advisory Committee in support of the inaugural MIT Future Fest. .Learn more and apply here: hubs.la/Q044PrcY0 Application closes March 2, 2026.

MIT neuroscientists in @SurLabMIT have found that mutations that cause Rett syndrome undermine the structural integrity of developing blood vessels. The new study points to a potential treatment. picower.mit.edu/news/rett-synd… @ScienceMIT @mitbrainandcog

Scientists from @MIT_Physics have developed a new microscope that compresses terahertz light — which oscillates over a trillion times per second — down to microscopic dimensions news.mit.edu/2026/terahertz…

From 13 billion heavy-ion collisions, physicists identified about 2,000 events that produced a Z boson. For each, they mapped the energies throughout the short-lived quark-gluon plasma, and consistently observed a fluid-like pattern of splashes in swirls news.mit.edu/2026/study-inf…

New work from researchers in @chemistryMIT "puts us one step closer to understanding how tinkering with cellular protein folding pathways can help with cancer treatment." news.mit.edu/2026/cancers-s…

By understanding how cancer "buffers" its own bad mutations, doctors may one day be able to break that safety net, forcing the cancer’s own mutations to become its downfall news.mit.edu/2026/cancers-s…

A new study from @eapsmit "implies that large earthquakes are not simply ‘scaled-up’ versions of small earthquakes, but instead they have their own unique rupture behavior," explains grad student Yudong Sun news.mit.edu/2026/new-study…