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3 Questions: Marking the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery
This July 4 marks 10 years since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought particle that imparts mass to all elementary particles. The
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Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models
Explanation methods that help users understand and trust machine-learning models often describe how much certain features used in the model
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Kerry Emanuel: A climate scientist and meteorologist in the eye of the storm
Kerry Emanuel once joked that whenever he retired, he would start a “hurricane safari” so other people could experience what it’s like to fly
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Could carbon monoxide foam help fight inflammation?
Carbon monoxide is best known as a potentially deadly gas. However, in small doses it also has beneficial qualities: It has been shown to reduce
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Researchers pioneer a new way to detect microbial contamination in cell cultures
Researchers from the Critical Analytics For Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance
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Exploring emerging topics in artificial intelligence policy
Members of the public sector, private sector, and academia convened for the second AI Policy Forum Symposium last month to explore critical
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Tissue model reveals key players in liver regeneration
The human liver has amazing regeneration capabilities: Even if up to 70 percent of it is removed, the remaining tissue can regrow a full-sized liver
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Three MIT faculty members named 2022 Simons Investigators
Physics professors Tracy Slatyer and Jesse Thaler and mathematics professor Wei Zhang were among 16 researchers selected to receive 2022 Simons
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New study illuminates tradeoff between complex words and complex sentences
Bruce Willis’s recent announcement that he was retiring from acting brought widespread public attention to the neurological condition aphasia.
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Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving
Hyper-realistic virtual worlds have been heralded as the best driving schools for autonomous vehicles (AVs), since they’ve proven fruitful test
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Quantum sensor can detect electromagnetic signals of any frequency
Quantum sensors, which detect the most minute variations in magnetic or electrical fields, have enabled precision measurements in materials science
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MIT engineers devise a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system
Autonomous robots have come a long way since the fastidious Roomba. In recent years, artificially intelligent systems have been deployed in
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MIT engineers devise a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system
Autonomous robots have come a long way since the fastidious Roomba. In recent years, artificially intelligent systems have been deployed in
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Seeing the whole from some of the parts
Upon looking at photographs and drawing on their past experiences, humans can often perceive depth in pictures that are, themselves, perfectly flat.
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Seeing the whole from some of the parts
Upon looking at photographs and drawing on their past experiences, humans can often perceive depth in pictures that are, themselves, perfectly flat.