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Using machine learning along with data from wave tank experiments, MIT engineers have found a way to model how waves break. “With this, you could…
MIT researchers have found that neurons of the anteroventral thalamus (labeled green) play a critical role in spatial working memory. Neurons of the anterodorsal thalamus…
A type of artificial intelligence called machine learning can help scale up manufacturing of perovskite solar cells. Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in…
A new searchable database reveals more than 90,000 known materials with electronic properties that remain unperturbed in the face of disruption. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT…
Researchers at MIT have discovered exactly how the tiny crystalline grains that make up metal form when subjected to an extreme deformation process. This can…
Using a new method, scientists have discovered that cells lose about 4% of their mass as they enter cell division. They are essentially taking out…
Silicon chip with 30 individual glucose micro fuel cells, seen as small silver squares inside each gray rectangle. Credit: Kent Dayton Engineers have created a…
MIT scientists have developed a machine learning model that proposes new molecules for the drug discovery process, while ensuring the molecules it suggests can actually…
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
MIT professor of physics Richard Milner, Jefferson Laboratory physicists Rolf Ent and Rik Yoshida, MIT documentary filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and Sputnik Animation’s…
Researchers have created a machine-learning system that efficiently predicts the future trajectories of multiple road users, like drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians, which could enable an…
Researchers create a mathematical framework to evaluate explanations of machine-learning models and quantify how well people understand them. Credit: MIT News with images from iStockphoto…
Animation depicting a black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWilde The system, which may have originated near…
In this illustration, a black hole pulls material off a neighboring star and into an accretion disk. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight…
The user-friendly unit, which weighs less than 10 kilograms and does not require the use of filters, can be powered by a small, portable solar…
Quantum computers are especially adept at simultaneously considering large numbers of possible combinations, but the instability of qubits in modern devices contributes to errors in…
According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, Millenium Falcon pilots would more likely see a warm glow as they jump to hyperspace. Credit:…
MIT researchers have developed an ultrathin loudspeaker that can turn any rigid surface into a high-quality, active audio source. The straightforward fabrication process they introduced…
MIT researchers have discovered that chromatin spends most of its time in a partially looped state (middle). Fully formed loops (right) occur only three to…
MIT scientists develop a low-cost, high-precision fabrication method for thin mirrors and silicon wafers. A novel photolithography technique could be a manufacturing game-changer for optical…