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In a @natBME paper, a team, including researchers in @MIT_CEE and @MITMechE, has developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design could one day provide a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants. news.mit.edu/2026/ultrasoun…

After losing family and close colleagues to cancer, @MITdeptofBE and @MIT_DMSE Professor Angela Belcher began researching how to detect the disease sooner, before it spreads. curiositymission.org/stories/cision/

A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has created a way to precisely move tens of thousands of individual atoms within a material in minutes at room temperature. dmse.mit.edu/news/researche…

In a @NaturePhysics paper, researchers from MIT and Lincoln Laboratory developed a technique to measure a property that can unexpectedly cause quantum circuits to perform differently than expected, increasing the error in computations. news.mit.edu/2026/improving…

MIT engineers have developed an approach using computer vision to assess children with cerebral palsy (CP), a common childhood neurological disorder caused by atypical brain development or brain damage that affects movement, muscle tone, and posture. meche.mit.edu/news-media/new…

Researchers at MIT have helped develop a trajectory-planning system that solves a major obstacle in autonomous search-and-rescue: enabling drones to navigate around unexpected barriers in real-time. news.mit.edu/2026/new-resea…

To address the costly challenges in manufacturing plant fertilizer, Chris Voigt, a professor and department head in @MITdeptofBE, co-founded @PivotBio, a company focused on using microbes to replace a significant share of synthetic fertilizer. curiositymission.org/stories/pivot/

In a @NatureBiotech paper, MIT engineers have developed a new way to amplify the T-cell response to mRNA vaccines, an advance that could lead to much more powerful cancer vaccines and stronger protection against infectious diseases. news.mit.edu/2026/new-appro…

In a new @NatureComms paper, researchers in @MITEECS could help to enable next-generation lidar sensors — which use light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure variable distances to the Earth — that are compact, durable, and have no moving parts. news.mit.edu/2026/photonics…

For the first time, a team, including researchers from @MIT_DMSE, directly characterized the 3D atomic structure of a material called relaxor ferroelectric, which has been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar systems. news.mit.edu/2026/hidden-st…

A team, including researchers in @MITEECS, developed a more user-friendly and efficient method to help networking engineers identify potential system failures before they cause major problems. news.mit.edu/2026/method-st…

A team led by @MITDeptofBE Professor Anders Sejr Hansen measured chromatin (a mix of DNA and proteins) movement at timescales ranging from hundreds of microseconds to hours, allowing them to rigorously quantify those dynamics for the first time. news.mit.edu/2026/how-chrom…

Zach Hartwig, @MIT_NSE professor, has long been drawn to the hardest problem he could find: how to recreate the limitless power of the sun here on Earth, through fusion energy. curiositymission.org/stories/cfs/

A new cluster tool at @MIT_nano introduces capabilities that will allow researchers to continue advancements in the performance of quantum bits — the minuscule building blocks of the quantum computer. news.mit.edu/2026/materials…

In a @NaturePhotonics paper, MIT engineers have designed nanotechnology devices that could be used for applications involving the manipulation of visible light — like optical computing. news.mit.edu/2026/powerful-…

A new MIT study finds that despite regional differences in climate, electricity sources, traffic, and driving patterns, electric vehicles produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions and cost no more to own than comparable gas-powered cars for most U.S drivers. news.mit.edu/2026/us-driver…

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A team, including researchers in @MITEECS, developed a new approach that can accelerate a privacy-preserving AI training method by about 81%. news.mit.edu/2026/enabling-…

A team led by @MITMechE Professor Carlos Portela developed a new type of soft magnetic hydrogel which can be made into complex, magnetically activated 3D structures. news.mit.edu/2026/microscop…

A new study published in @ScienceMagazine led by Alex Shalek, director of @MIT_IMES, shows how a key T cell protein called LAT keeps immune responses in balance. imes.mit.edu/news-events/sh…