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    RT @eapsMIT: While many star systems remain stable, sometimes a star consumes a planet that gets too close. A new study found a star about 300 light years away steadily pulling material off its companion at a rate that could take hundreds of thousands of years.
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    RT @mcgovernmit: McGovern Investigator Fan Wang has been honored by MIT graduate students as “Committed to Caring,” an annual award that celebrates faculty members who have served as exceptional mentors to PhD students.  🥰 Congrats Prof Wang! @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT
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    RT @eapsMIT: Melting ice shelves are a major contributor to sea level rise. A new Science study of 15,000+ cliffs finds they collapse faster than predicted, but then stabilize, reducing the risk of runaway collapse.
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    RT @MIT: MIT announces the MIT for America initiative. The effort aims to help U.S. learners from kindergarten to community college, with an emphasis on math, making, and the constructive use of AI.
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    RT @mcgovernmit: Congrats to @AnnMGraybiel for winning the Review Paper of the Year from the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society! Read the award-winning paper, "Surprises from the Basal Ganglia: Stop and Go Have New Meaning," below: @movedisorder
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    RT @mit_cs3: The size of the hole in the #ozone layer last month, measuring 10.6 million sq. miles, was especially large. However, longer term trends show that the ozone hole is slowly recovering as expected, says MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon.
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    "There are also a lot of 'unknown unknowns' that could come from these tools, much like the map of the roundworm in the 1980s led to new biological discoveries no one could have anticipated." via @hhmi_science
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    Happy Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in STEM—like computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton. Read about her legacy at MIT News
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    RT @MIT: Congratulations to Robert E. Hall PhD ’67 and Michael Woodford PhD ’83! 👏
    The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize
    BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.” #NobelPrize
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  10. The Nobel Prize✓@NobelPrize
    BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.” #NobelPrize
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    RT @FakhriLab: What an honor! So grateful to my wonderful group members (alumni & current) @MIT, colleagues & mentors who have been part of my scientific journey. I am thrilled to be named an @APSphysics Fellow!
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    🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 APS Fellows! DSNP extends its heartfelt congratulations to the newly elected Fellows of the @APSphysics recognized for outstanding contributions to physics, original research and exceptional service to the cause of science. #APS #Physics #DSNP
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    🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 APS Fellows! DSNP extends its heartfelt congratulations to the newly elected Fellows of the @APSphysics recognized for outstanding contributions to physics, original research and exceptional service to the cause of science. #APS #Physics #DSNP
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    RT @WSJ: John Urschel gave up his career with the Baltimore Ravens to study math at MIT. He just published a paper proving a decades-old mathematical conjecture regarding Gaussian elimination. 🔗:
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    RT @MIT: 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:
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    RT @KavliPrize: With 2026 Kavli Prize Laureate Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, a lifelong curiosity and sense of adventure shaped a scientific journey that took him from Valencia, Spain, to the frontiers of nanoscience. 1/3
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    RT @FakhriLab: We made the cover of PRX!! Our work on nonreciprocal living matter is on the cover of @PhysRevX! Very proud of this work and this amazing team! Cover credit: APS/Ella Maru
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    RT @MIT: Most colon cancer deaths are caused by the spread of tumor cells beyond the colon, usually to the liver. In a new study, MIT biologists identified a cellular pathway necessary for colorectal cancer metastasis. Drugs that block the pathway may help prevent metastasis.
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    Long-range mRNA folding shapes expression and sequence of bacterial genes
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    RT @GeneWeiLiLab: In our latest study, published in @MolecularCell, we reveal that mRNA sequences hundreds of nucleotides from the start codon can act as potent repressors of gene expression through long-range base pairing to the ribosome binding site (RBS)... (1/4)
    Molecular Cell @MolecularCell
    Long-range mRNA folding shapes expression and sequence of bacterial genes
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