An MIT study reveals what happens in the brain as lapses of attention occur following sleep deprivation. During these lapses, a wave of cerebrospinal fluid flows out of the brain — a process that typically occurs during sleep and helps to wash away waste products that have built up during the day.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new MIT study highlights the potential of generative AI for certain types of writing assignments in the workplace.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Age-related declines in stem cell function can be reversed by a 24-hour fast, according to a new study from MIT. Biologists found fasting dramatically improves stem cells’ ability to regenerate, in both aged and young mice.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new study from MIT reveals how a high-fat diet may lead to cancer by affecting the cells in the lining of the intestine.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIT study also pinpoints where the brain stores memory traces, both false and authentic.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT physicists have significantly amplified quantum changes in atomic vibrations, allowing them to exclude noise from the classical world. This advance may allow them to measure these atomic oscillations, and how they evolve over time, and ultimately hone the precision of atomic clocks and of quantum sensors for detecting dark matter or gravitational waves.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An MIT-designed atomic clock uses entangled atoms to keep time even more precisely than its state-of-the-art counterparts. The design could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity’s effect on time.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The interactive segmentation tool “ScribblePrompt” allows users to scribble, click, and use bounding boxes to delineate anatomical structures in biomedical images. This manual annotation algorithm was trained on synthetic data that simulated how humans interact with medical scans.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New concrete and carbon black supercapacitors with optimized electrolytes have 10 times the energy storage of previous designs and can be incorporated into a wide range of architectural forms.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT engineers created a carbon-cement supercapacitor that can store large amounts of energy. Made of just cement, water, and carbon black, the device could form the basis for inexpensive systems that store intermittently renewable energy, such as solar or wind energy.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT physicists have put forth a strong theoretical case that a recently detected highly energetic neutrino may have been the product of a primordial black hole exploding outside our solar system.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researchers have developed prototypes of data visualizations that enable blind and low-vision people who use screen readers to more easily explore information and gain deeper insights about chart data. They plan to turn these prototypes into a software tool that could help designers make data visualizations accessible and navigable.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Supercomputing Center has developed tools to reduce data center energy use by power-capping hardware and by improving the efficiency with which models are trained — in some cases, their techniques reduce energy use by 80%.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inspired by a hitchhiking fish that uses a specialized suction organ to latch onto other marine animals, MIT engineers designed a mechanical adhesive device that attaches to soft, slippery surfaces and remains there for days or weeks. The device could be used to deliver drugs in the GI tract or monitor aquatic environments.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since much economic growth comes from tech innovation, the way societies use artificial intelligence is of keen interest to MIT Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu, who has published several papers on AI economics in recent months.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Entrepreneur served on faculty for 45 years; championed long-term corporate research.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Science journalist Usha Lee McFarling will be the next director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. She will succeed Deborah Blum, award-winning author and co-founder of Undark magazine, after 10 years as director.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT-based program has provided research experience for hundreds of reporters.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
During its Generative AI Week in November 2023, MIT hosted symposia and events aimed at examining the implications and possibilities of generative artificial intelligence.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can register brain scans and other 3-D images more than 1,000 times more quickly using novel learning techniques.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An MIT study teases apart the many factors that have caused the costs of solar photovoltaic modules to drop by 99 percent over the last 40 years.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New method allows scientists to insert multiple genes in specific locations, delete defective genes.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new study from MIT cognitive scientists offers an answer to why legal documents such as contracts or deeds are often so impenetrable.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Most U.S. workers are in occupations that have only emerged widely since 1940, according to a large-scale study of 80 years of U.S. census data, led by MIT economist David Autor.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill provides an update on the Institute’s newest incoming class in the wake of the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard Supreme Court ruling.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT and Harvard University announced a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company. 2U will transfer $800 million to a nonprofit organization, led by MIT and Harvard, to explore the next generation of online education.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known as Fanzor, has the potential to be more easily delivered to cells and tissues than CRISPR-Cas systems, and further refinements could make them a valuable new technology for human genome editing.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A new paper from the MIT Media Lab's Joy Buolamwini shows that three commercial facial-analysis programs demonstrate gender and skin-type biases, and suggests a new, more accurate method for evaluating the performance of such machine-learning systems.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
What do people mean when they say “generative AI,” and why are these systems finding their way into practically every application imaginable? MIT AI experts help break down the ins and outs of this increasingly popular, and ubiquitous, technology.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who grew skeptical of artificial intelligence after creating a program that made many users feel like they were speaking with an empathic psychologist, died March 5 in Berlin. He was 85.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Deep learning,” the machine-learning technique behind the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems of the past decade, is really a revival of the 70-year-old concept of neural networks.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT neuroscientists find the brain can identify images seen for as little as 13 milliseconds.| MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
