“In astrophysics, we have only this one universe which we can observe,” Mark Vogelsberger, an…
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Ultrastable and made of inexpensive, nontoxic elements, chalcogenide perovskites could find applications in solar cells,…
Comparison of four oxidation-based cleaners suggests the devices produce their own pollutants and vary in…
Alumna-founded Aavia uses education, community, and technology to change the way people think about hormones.…
The findings may help explain why some people who lead enriching lives are less prone…
A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions. Robots can deliver…
A screening method developed by MIT researchers targets hydrogen peroxide in the search for new…
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in…
Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as “deep learning” revives 70-year-old idea. In the past 10 years,…
A new method forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning…
MIT Graduate student Nicholas Kamp describes the MicroBooNE experiment and its implications for our understanding…
The prevalence of auditory symptoms in COVID-19 patients is unknown, but infection of the inner…
A new RNA-based control switch could be used to trigger production of therapeutic proteins to…
Researchers decipher when and why immune cells fail to respond to immunotherapy, suggesting that T…
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one,…
The technology could be developed as a rapid diagnostic for COVID-19 or other emerging pathogens.…
Periodically catching up on sleep can improve gait control for the chronically sleep-deprived. Good sleep…
A new study finds cutting off cells’ supplies of lipids can slow the growth of…