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New research shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving…
Cells may use this strategy to clear out toxic byproducts and give their offspring a…
Engineers have created a glucose power source that could fuel miniature implants and electronic sensors.…
3 Questions: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw on Building Beautiful Architecture in Space The TESSERAE project, a…
A new artificial intelligence technique has been developed that only proposes candidate molecules that can…
An Art-Science Collaboration Tests the Limits of Visual Technologies Try to picture a proton —…
Compared to native-born American citizens, immigrants are more frequently involved in founding companies at all…
A new machine-learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby…
MIT researchers create a mathematical framework to evaluate explanations of machine-learning models and quantify how…
The system, which may have originated near the center of the Milky Way, is orbited…
New findings will help scientists trace a black hole’s evolution as it feeds on stellar…
Researchers build a portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without the need…
Simulating a Quantum Future Quantum computers are anticipated to revolutionize the way researchers address complex…
A new approach could make it possible detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather…
The flexible, thin-film device has the potential to make any surface into a low-power, high-quality…
Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that “engrams,” the ensembles of neurons encoding a memory, are…
MIT research finds genome loops don’t last long in cells; theories of how loops control…