MIT Chemists Design New Light-Powered Catalysts That Could Aid in Manufacturing
When coated onto plastic tubing, the catalysts could act on chemicals flowing through, helping to synthesize drugs and other compounds. A new type of photoredox…
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Unlocking One of the Most Profound Cosmological Mysteries: How the Universe Got Its Magnetic Field
By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are helping to solve one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields. One…
On the Road to Cleaner, Greener, and Faster Driving – With Some Help From AI
MIT researchers use artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights. No one enjoys waiting at a red light. But signalized intersections…
MIT Expert on the Progress of mRNA Vaccines
Following the successful development of Covid-19 vaccines, researchers hope to deploy mRNA-based therapies to combat many other diseases. Two mRNA vaccines, which were granted emergency…
MIT Engineers Use Artificial Intelligence To Capture the Complexity of Breaking Waves
The new model’s predictions should help researchers improve ocean climate simulations and hone the design of offshore structures. Waves break once they swell to a…
MIT Researchers Identify Brain Circuit in the Thalamus That Helps Us Hold Information in Mind
This brain circuit, which weakens with age, could offer a target to help prevent age-related decline in spatial memory. As people age, their working memory…
Artificial Intelligence Helps Scale Up Advanced Solar Cell Manufacturing
Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help. Perovskites…
Topological Materials Are Everywhere – New Database Reveals Over 90,000
Searchable tool reveals more than 90,000 known materials with electronic properties that remain unperturbed in the face of disruption. What will it take for our…
Charting a Safe Course for an Autonomous Robot Through a Highly Uncertain Environment
A new technique has been developed to safely guide an autonomous robot without knowledge of its environmental conditions or the size, shape, or location of…
MIT Scientists Unveil a Secret of Stronger Metals
New research shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties. Forming metal into the specific shapes needed for…
Cells Take Out the Trash Before They Divide To Give Their Offspring a Clean Slate
Cells may use this strategy to clear out toxic byproducts and give their offspring a fresh start. MIT scientists have discovered that before cells start…
Ultrathin Fuel Cell Generates Electricity From Your Body’s Own Sugar
Engineers have created a glucose power source that could fuel miniature implants and electronic sensors. Glucose is a sugar we absorb from the foods we…
MIT TESSERAE Project: Building Beautiful Architecture in Space
3 Questions: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw on Building Beautiful Architecture in Space The TESSERAE project, a design for self-assembling space structures and habitats, has sent prototypes…
A Smarter Way To Develop New Drugs Using Artificial Intelligence
A new artificial intelligence technique has been developed that only proposes candidate molecules that can actually be produced in a lab. Pharmaceutical companies are using…
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
An art-science collaboration tests the limits of visual technologies. Try to picture a proton — the tiny, positively charged particle within an atomic nucleus —…
Researchers Say Immigrants Are 80% More Likely To Start a Company Than U.S.-Born Citizens
Compared to native-born American citizens, immigrants are more frequently involved in founding companies at all scales. Immigrants to the United States are more likely to…
Predicting Others’ Behavior on the Road With Artificial Intelligence
A new machine-learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists in real-time. Humans may be one…
Unpacking Black-Box Models: ExSum Mathematical Framework To Evaluate Explanations of Machine-Learning Models
MIT researchers create a mathematical framework to evaluate explanations of machine-learning models and quantify how well people understand them. Modern machine-learning models, such as neural…
