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Electric fields drive the electrical activity of networks of neurons to produce a shared representation
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Electric fields drive the electrical activity of networks of neurons to produce a shared representation
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MIT scientists developed tiny, soft-bodied robots that can be controlled with a weak magnet
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MIT researchers created a new data privacy metric, Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Privacy, and built
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A three-year research program led by faculty at MIT aims to design the world
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A new technique allows scientists to see how intensely rivers used to flow on Mars
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A new technology called RIBOmap, developed at MIT, can give researchers valuable insight into how
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MIT Associate Professor Mathias Kolle is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other
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In hopes of improving the survival rate for breast cancer patients, MIT researchers designed a
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MIT researchers created a generic framework that enables an engineer or scientist to evaluate the
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MIT CSAIL researchers created FrameDiff, a computational tool utilizing machine learning to design novel protein
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Researchers have discovered the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The technology, known
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For the first time, MIT chemists measured the energy transfer between photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins
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A new framework known as MAGE merges the two key tasks of image generation and
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PhotoGuard is AI technique for countering unauthorized image manipulation, safeguarding authenticity in the era of
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MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong
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An MIT machine-learning system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and
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New algorithms for trajectory planning and control of fixed-wing “tailsitter” aircraft are faster and
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In experiments aboard the International Space Station, a surface treatment developed by MIT engineers prevented
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By adding synergistic self-adjuvanting properties to Covid-19 RNA vaccines, MIT researchers showed they
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A machine-learning system remotely analyzes videos of people with motor or neurological disorders, and
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MIT Assistant Professor Mikhail Ivanov has won a share of the 2024 New Horizons in
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MIT engineers designed an implantable device that carries hundreds of thousands of islet cells along
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Sixteen new faculty joined the MIT departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants were awarded to bold research projects by MIT faculty
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Priming users about the motives of an AI agent had a significant impact on their
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When stacked in five layers in a rhombohedral pattern, graphene takes on a rare “multiferroic
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Species from snails to algae to amoebas make programmable DNA-cutting enzymes called Fanzors, and
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FibeRobo is a liquid crystal elastomer fiber that can change its shape in response to
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MIT researchers used generative AI models to help robots more efficiently solve complex object-manipulation
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LIGO researchers at MIT, Caltech, and elsewhere report a significant advance in quantum squeezing, which
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New MIT studies support the idea that the brain uses a process similar to a
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New computational techniques, “HighLight” and “Tailors and Swiftiles,” could dramatically boost the speed and performance
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At the interface of water and air, light can, in certain conditions, bring about evaporation
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A wearable ultrasound monitor can image the bladder and determine how full it is. The
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A new method allows scientists to label and image many different molecules at once within
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Plate tectonics can trigger ice ages through the production of the carbon-trapping mineral smectite
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MIT chemists have now come up with a way to make molecules known as acenes
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A robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle mimics the beating and blood-pumping
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MIT researchers developed a way to quickly calculate the transition state structure of a chemical
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Colon cancer screening is more effective than previously realized, according to a study by Josh
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An MIT study finds chiral structures, with mirror-image configurations, can emerge from nonchiral systems
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MIT physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than
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A compound originally developed as a cancer treatment may hold promise for treating polycystic kidney
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MIT scientists have identified 18 new tidal disruption events (TDEs) — extreme instances when a nearby
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Using a microscopy technique known as expansion-mediated protein decrowding, researchers imaged human brain tissue
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For the first time, MIT physicists have captured direct images of “second sound,” the movement
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A tiny microfluidic device can improve cell therapy techniques for spinal cord injury patients. The
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Human sweat contains a protein that may protect against Lyme disease, according to a study
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MIT astronomers observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe
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Episodes of heavy snowfall and rain likely contributed to a swarm of earthquakes over the