- A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubbleSPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot capable of navigating under collapsed structures.
- Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challengesThis new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems.
- Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers findThese big fish get most of their food from the ocean’s “twilight zone,” a deep, dark region the commercial fishing industry is eyeing with interest.
- For plants, urban heat islands don’t mimic global warmingScientists have found that trees in cities respond to higher temperatures differently than those in forests, potentially masking climate impacts.
- Mapping the future of metamaterialsMechanical metamaterials research demands interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, say researchers from MechE's Portela Lab.
- MIT Maritime Consortium sets sailA new international collaboration unites MIT and maritime industry leaders to develop nuclear propulsion technologies, alternative fuels, data-powered strategies for operation, and more.
- A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readersThe Tactile Vega-Lite system, developed at MIT CSAIL, streamlines the tactile chart design process; could help educators efficiently create these graphics and aid designers in making precise changes.
- Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leavesWith the new system, farmers could significantly cut their use of pesticides and fertilizers, saving money and reducing runoff.
- Decoding a medieval mystery manuscriptUsing tech tools and a human touch, Arthur Bahr sheds light on the original volume containing “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “Pearl.”
- Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successesInvestment in analytics may also benefit college teams and fields beyond sports, a new study shows.
- Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowdsThe findings could help planners design safer, more efficient pedestrian thoroughfares.
- MIT scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to lightThe research may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for wound healing or drug delivery.
- Engineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugsWith tinier needles and fewer injections, the approach may enable new options for long-term delivery of contraceptives or treatments for diseases such as HIV.
- Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processorsMIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.
- AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approachesResearchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone.
- 3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you“Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assembling bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs.
- To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or MandarinA new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.
- New platform lets anyone rapidly prototype large, sturdy interactive structuresThe system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
- Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robotsMIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts.
- Evidence that 40Hz gamma stimulation promotes brain health is expandingA decade of studies provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain’s gamma rhythms could help fight Alzheimer’s, and perhaps other neurological diseases.
- When did human language emerge?A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that.
- High-performance computing, with much less codeThe Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers.
