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Apollo’s Rocket Scientists

Forty years ago, NASA put a man on the moon. But MIT did the steering.

Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office

October 21, 2009

By Larry Hardesty

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TactStyle, a system developed by CSAIL researchers, uses image prompts to replicate both the visual appearance and tactile properties of 3D models.

Kripa Varanasi named faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation

The interfacial engineering expert and prolific entrepreneur will help faculty and students take breakthroughs from lab to market.

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Norma Kamali is transforming the future of fashion with AI

The renowned designer embraces generative AI to preserve and propel her legacy.

Five students gather around a table with an open laptop and parts needed to build a medical device

“Biomedical Lab in a Box” empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries

Through workshops based on an MIT class, students in Kenya and Uganda gained hands-on experience engineering medical hardware.

Julie Lucas to step down as MIT’s vice president for resource development

Lucas has led MIT’s fundraising since 2014, including the record-setting MIT Campaign for a Better World.

A tiny planet orbits has a large tail of debris spreading behind it as it orbits a star. Some debris is also in front of the planet.

Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail

The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5 hours.

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