Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships | MIT News
Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships 2024-05-20 16:25:00 news.mit.edu Eleven MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won Fulbright ...
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Exotic black holes could be a byproduct of dark matter | MIT News
Jennifer Chu | MIT News 2024-06-06 00:00:00 news.mit.edu For every kilogram of matter that we can see — from the ...
Large language models don’t behave like people, even though we may expect them to | MIT News
Adam Zewe | MIT News 2024-07-23 00:00:00 news.mit.edu One thing that makes large language models (LLMs) so powerful is the ...
Proton-conducting materials could enable new green energy technologies | MIT News
David L. Chandler | MIT News 2024-07-23 10:30:00 news.mit.edu As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the ...
MIT researchers advance automated interpretability in AI models | MIT News
Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL 2024-07-23 16:00:00 news.mit.edu As artificial intelligence models become increasingly prevalent and are integrated into diverse ...
Building bidirectional bridges | MIT News
Jennifer Sutton | Institute Community and Equity Office 2024-08-14 13:00:00 news.mit.edu In June 2023, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled ...
How to increase the rate of plastics recycling | MIT News
David L. Chandler | MIT News 2024-07-03 00:00:00 news.mit.edu While recycling systems and bottle deposits have become increasingly widespread in ...
Method prevents an AI model from being overconfident about wrong answers | MIT News
Adam Zewe | MIT News 2024-07-31 00:00:00 news.mit.edu People use large language models for a huge array of tasks, from ...
Microscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections | MIT News
David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory 2024-06-18 15:35:00 news.mit.edu The brain’s ability to learn comes from ...
MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style | MIT News
Anne Trafton | MIT News 2024-08-19 15:00:00 news.mit.edu Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for lawyers. This raises ...
Study: Under extreme impacts, metals get stronger when heated | MIT News
David L. Chandler | MIT News 2024-05-22 11:00:00 news.mit.edu Metals get softer when they are heated, which is how blacksmiths ...
Scientists find a human “fingerprint” in the upper troposphere’s increasing ozone | MIT News
Jennifer Chu | MIT News 2024-08-02 00:00:00 news.mit.edu Ozone can be an agent of good or harm, depending on where ...
Scientists find neurons that process language on different timescales | MIT News
Anne Trafton | MIT News 2024-08-26 05:00:00 news.mit.edu Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neuroscientists have identified several regions of ...
Investigating the past to see technology’s future | MIT News
Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 2024-07-09 15:10:00 news.mit.edu The MIT Program in Science, Technology, and ...
When to trust an AI model | MIT News
Adam Zewe | MIT News 2024-07-11 14:45:00 news.mit.edu Because machine-learning models can give false predictions, researchers often equip them with ...
MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems | MIT News
Adam Zewe | MIT News 2024-08-14 00:00:00 news.mit.edu Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking ...
What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation | MIT News
Jennifer Chu | MIT News 2024-06-26 11:00:00 news.mit.edu A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales ...
MIT SHASS announces appointment of new heads for 2024-25 | MIT News
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 2024-07-11 15:40:00 news.mit.edu The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) ...
Alex Shalek named director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science | MIT News
Mary Beth Gallagher | School of Engineering 2024-08-09 15:30:00 news.mit.edu Alex K. Shalek, the J. W. Kieckhefer Professor in the ...
3 Questions: Evidence for planetary formation through gravitational instability | MIT News
Paige Colley | EAPS 2024-09-04 11:10:00 news.mit.edu Exoplanets form in protoplanetary disks, a collection of space dust and gas orbiting ...
New open-source tool helps to detangle the brain | MIT News
Anne McGovern | MIT Lincoln Laboratory 2024-08-14 14:30:00 news.mit.edu In late 2023, the first drug with potential to slow the progression ...
Creating the crossroads | MIT News
Lillian Eden | Department of Biology 2024-06-28 15:00:00 news.mit.edu A few years ago, Gevorg Grigoryan PhD ’07, then a professor ...
Study: Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles | MIT News
Jennifer Chu | MIT News 2024-09-13 00:00:00 news.mit.edu A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known ...
MIT engineers’ new theory could improve the design and operation of wind farms | MIT News
David L. Chandler | MIT News 2024-08-21 05:00:00 news.mit.edu The blades of propellers and wind turbines are designed based on ...
Scientists observe record-setting electron mobility in a new crystal film | MIT News
Jennifer Chu | MIT News 2024-07-01 10:00:00 news.mit.edu A material with a high electron mobility is like a highway without ...
MIT affiliates named 2024 HHMI Investigators | MIT News
School of Science 2024-07-23 15:35:00 news.mit.edu The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced its 2024 investigators, four of whom hail ...