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Newest story built on news.mit.edu reporting: MIT students' 2017 tremor wristband wins FDA clearance nine years on (October 16, 2026). news.mit.edu reporting informs the Science desk, most often on Constraint-enforced generation, 2D/3D image registration, and 3D Printing. 26 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from August 18, 2026.
MIT researchers trained a neural network on six signaling pathways in human stem cells, then tested it on mouse embryo cells. Each pathway's gene-activity fingerprint held across cell types, the team reports in Nature Methods.
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Encora Therapeutics won FDA clearance in February for a tremor wristband that MIT students first built in a 2017 class. The cleared use is adults with essential tremor, and in one trial 78 percent of patients reported benefit after 90 days of home use.
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MIT's Sustainable Supply Chain Lab finds 83% of 1,810 supply chain professionals rate sustainability important or very important, a seven-year high. Yet 68% say tariff uncertainty made them delay, scale back or abandon strategies, and only 51% of firms with public goals have a cross-functional team.
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Researchers including a team at MIT report in Nature that a machine-learning layer doubled a gold-standard model's forecast accuracy at two to six weeks. Beyond two weeks, energy, farm and emergency planners have had little reliable forecast to use.
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MIT researchers report in PNAS that randomly connected units can build their own learning machinery from simple rules for when connections change. The authors propose self-organization as the test of whether a network is biologically plausible.
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the software engineering team at MIT's Instrumentation Lab during NASA's Apollo program, died on September 30 at 90. MIT News, which reported her death, credits her with helping to establish software engineering as a discipline of its own.
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory's AI accelerator survey has grown from 57 accelerators in its first paper to more than 120, compared on peak performance and power. Its ratings are published ceilings, so compute planners get an independent map of the market and still have to test sustained speed themselves.
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MIT launched MIT for America, an institute-wide STEM push from kindergarten to community college, noting only 6 percent of US students take computer science. The plan makes national STEM teaching part of MIT's stated mission and builds partly on programs the Institute already runs.
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Novices using InstructMesh, a tool from MIT CSAIL, Google and Northeastern, found and fixed flaws in AI-generated 3D models about 90 percent of the time. An expert graded the edited designs, so how the printed objects perform is still an open question.
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Ataraxos, an AI from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, NYU and Stanford researchers, beat top-ranked human Stratego players by a large margin, MIT reports. The team says it was far cheaper to train than rival systems and also beat top players at other strategy games.
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Google.org gave the MIT Transit Lab $2.1 million to build one AI platform for transit control-centre monitoring, operations and rider messaging. Its designers leave every decision with staff, so the work will be judged on whether control-room workers trust the tool and use it.
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MIT's Brian Hedden and Manish Raghavan argue that the provable cost of every firm using one hiring algorithm is an echo chamber that curbs exploration. In their models, an ensemble of several screening tools can offset that loss.
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MIT researchers used an AI algorithm to reformulate mRNA vaccine nanoparticles that stay stable for a year at room temperature and two months near 38C. In mice the shots matched a Moderna-like vaccine. The lab says the change could loosen the ultracold cold chain.
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A paper in EES Catalysis claims to identify the physical properties that drive nitrogen reduction, aimed at the cost gap keeping electrochemical ammonia out of a 200-million-ton market.
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A new MIT algorithm produces plausible once-a-century storms, heat waves and fires without training on past extremes. The data excuse for skipping a stress test just got weaker.
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MIT researchers report that a lexicon of 49 suicide risk factors accurately predicted risk levels in about 16,000 Crisis Text Line chats. Each match traces to a named factor, so the scores can be audited, but they were checked against the crisis line's own ratings and still need clinical validation.
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A new book from MIT's Senseable City Lab argues that computer vision can quantify streets at a scale pen-and-paper urbanism never reached, and the account of it gives privacy and fairness one line.
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The commitment averages about $200,000 per two-year award and keeps ten fellows in support at any one time from the second year on, a decade of training slots set by a donor at a moment MIT calls precarious for federal funding.
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Existing 2D/3D registration models align well for some patients and fail for others. MIT's xvr, out today in Nature, fits itself to one patient in about five minutes, then matches that patient's X-rays to their 3D scan in seconds.
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HardFlow treats sampling as a trajectory-optimization problem and lets the intermediate steps break the rules. MIT reports better solutions than projection-based sampling in robotics, process control and vision experiments, with no retraining.
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