Congratulations to Nergis Mavalvala PhD '97, Dean of the MIT School of Science and Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics, on being named to the 2026 @Forbes 50 Over 50! #ForbesOver50forbes.com/sites/maggiemc…
Climate-driven sea level rise is making freshwater ecosystems saltier, and @MIT_Physics researchers have uncovered how that shift could reshape the microbial communities that sustain rivers and estuaries
The universe keeps telling us that black holes exist in an "impossible" mass zone. That's leaving astronomers to find alternative origin stories for black holes via @Gizmodo
Congratulations to Pablo Jarillo-Herrero! The @MIT_Physics professor shares the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for foundational work that established the field of twistronics.”
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!
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