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Biologists identify targets for new pancreatic cancer treatments
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Biologists identify targets for new pancreatic cancer treatments Researchers from MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered that a class of peptides expressed in pancreatic cancer cells could be a promising target for T-cell therapies and other approaches that attack pancreatic tumors.Known as cryptic peptides, these molecules are ...
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MIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger
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MIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger It’s been a scientific truth so universally acknowledged that it’s taught in classrooms and repeated in pop-science videos: An egg is strongest when dropped vertically, on its ends. But when MIT engineers actually put this assumption to the test, they ...
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System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling
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System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what’s inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, and the ...
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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
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Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision.The new table tennis bot comprises a multijointed robotic arm that is fixed to one end of a ping ...
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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten Dangers come but dangers also go, and when they do, the brain has an “all-clear” signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear. A new study in mice by MIT neuroscientists shows that the signal is the release of dopamine ...
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How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system?
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How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system? As the world struggles to reduce climate-warming carbon emissions, India has pledged to do its part, and its success is critical: In 2023, India was the third-largest carbon emitter worldwide. The Indian government has committed to having net-zero carbon emissions ...
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Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds
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Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds What would a behind-the-scenes look at a video generated by an artificial intelligence model be like? You might think the process is similar to stop-motion animation, where many images are created and stitched together, but that’s not quite the case ...
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If time is money, here’s one way consumers value it
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If time is money, here’s one way consumers value it As the saying goes, time is money. That’s certainly evident in the transportation sector, where people will pay more for direct flights, express trains, and other ways to get somewhere quickly.Still, it is difficult to measure precisely how much people ...
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Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation
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Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation What if data could help predict a patient’s prognosis, streamline hospital operations, or optimize human resources in medicine? A book fresh off the shelves, “The Analytics Edge in Healthcare,” shows that this is already happening, and demonstrates how to scale it. Authored ...
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New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning
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New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning If there’s one thing that characterizes driving in any major city, it’s the constant stop-and-go as traffic lights change and as cars and trucks merge and separate and turn and park. This constant stopping and starting is extremely inefficient, driving ...
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New molecular label could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests
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New molecular label could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests Tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills more than 1 million annually. Once established in the lungs, the bacteria’s thick cell wall helps it to fight off the host ...
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The age-old problem of long-term care
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The age-old problem of long-term care Caring well for the elderly is a familiar challenge. Some elderly people need close medical attention in facilities; others struggle with reduced capabilities while not wanting to leave their homes. For families, finding good care is hard and expensive, and ...
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MIT physicists snap the first images of “free-range” atoms
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MIT physicists snap the first images of “free-range” atoms MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the “free-range” particles that until now were predicted but never directly observed. Their findings, appearing today in the journal Physical Review ...
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Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain
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Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a novel artificial intelligence model inspired by neural oscillations in the brain, with the goal of significantly advancing how machine learning algorithms handle long sequences of data.AI often ...
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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past
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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist’s fingers projected onto the moving keys of a real grand piano that filled the space with music.Watching the ...
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Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin
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Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin The composition of bacterial populations living on our faces plays a significant role in the development of acne and other skin conditions such as eczema. Two species of bacteria predominate in most people, but how they interact with each other, ...
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Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings
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Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings The ambiguity in medical imaging can present major challenges for clinicians who are trying to identify disease. For instance, in a chest X-ray, pleural effusion, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs, can look very much like pulmonary infiltrates, ...
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The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4
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The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4 Since its founding 19 years ago as a pioneering collaboration with Portuguese universities, research institutions and corporations, the MIT-Portugal Program (MPP) has achieved a slew of successes — from enabling 47 entrepreneurial spinoffs and funding over 220 joint projects between ...
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MIT engineers advance toward a fault-tolerant quantum computer
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MIT engineers advance toward a fault-tolerant quantum computer In the future, quantum computers could rapidly simulate new materials or help scientists develop faster machine-learning models, opening the door to many new possibilities.But these applications will only be possible if quantum computers can perform operations extremely quickly, so scientists ...
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In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use
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In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use Newly published results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial in Japan among more than 170 children aged 1 to 6 who underwent surgery show that by using electroencephalogram (EEG) readings of brain waves to monitor unconsciousness, an anesthesiologist can significantly ...
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