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…
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…
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 may use this strategy to clear out toxic byproducts and give their offspring a fresh start. MIT scientists have discovered that before cells start…
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…
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 new artificial intelligence technique has been developed that only proposes candidate molecules that can actually be produced in a lab. Pharmaceutical companies are using…
An art-science collaboration tests the limits of visual technologies. Try to picture a proton — the tiny, positively charged particle within an atomic nucleus —…
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…
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…
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…
The system, which may have originated near the center of the Milky Way, is orbited by a third stellar companion. The flashing of a nearby…
New findings will help scientists trace a black hole’s evolution as it feeds on stellar material. Tens of millions of black holes are strewn across…
Researchers build a portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without the need for filters or high-pressure pumps. MIT researchers have developed a…
Simulating a Quantum Future Quantum computers are anticipated to revolutionize the way researchers address complex computing problems. These computers are being developed to address major…
A new approach could make it possible detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions of years. For “Star Wars” fans, the streaking…
The flexible, thin-film device has the potential to make any surface into a low-power, high-quality audio source. MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that…
Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that “engrams,” the ensembles of neurons encoding a memory, are widely distributed, including among regions not previously realized. A new…
MIT research finds genome loops don’t last long in cells; theories of how loops control gene expression may need to be revised. In human chromosomes,…