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WEBNewsweek. A new study by MIT researchers suggests that “Mars’ missing atmosphere may be locked up in the planet’s clay-rich surface,” reports Tom Howarth for Newsweek. “According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' rocks could have triggered a series of chemical reactions, converting CO2 into methane and trapping ...
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WEB6 days ago · Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2024 R&D 100 Awards. The innovations map the ocean floor and the brain, prevent heat stroke and cognitive injury, expand AI processing and quantum system capabilities, and introduce new fabrication approaches. September 24, 2024. Read full story.
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WEB2 days ago · Research quantifying “nociception” could help improve management of surgical pain. New statistical models based on physiological data from more than 100 surgeries provide objective, accurate measures of the body’s subconscious perception of pain. September 24, 2024. Read full story.
A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with
WEBJul 1, 2024 · With a new surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, MIT researchers restored a natural walking gait in people with amputations below the knee. Seven patients were able to walk faster, avoid obstacles, and climb stairs more naturally than people with a traditional amputation.
Study: AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home ... - MIT News
WEBSep 19, 2024 · Maybe all they are learning is arbitrary patterns or noise,” says lead author Shomik Jain, a graduate student in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). Wilson and Jain are joined on the paper by co-senior author Dana Calacci PhD ’23, an assistant professor at the Penn State University College of Information Science and …
On technology in schools, think evolution, not revolution
WEB4 days ago · Before long Reich co-founded EdTechTeacher, a consulting firm helping schools use technology productively. And his own teaching reinforced a lesson: When larger practices in a discipline change, schools can use technology to follow suit; it will make less difference otherwise. Then too, schools also adapt and evolve in ways unrelated to …
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WEBOct 1, 2024 · Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager named Kavli Prize Laureates. MIT scientists honored in each of the three Kavli Prize categories: neuroscience, nanoscience, and astrophysics, respectively. June 12, 2024. Read full story.
Study assesses seizure risk from stimulating the thalamus
WEBSep 6, 2024 · Support for the research came from The JPB Foundation, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory; George J. Elbaum ’59, SM ’63, PhD ’67, Mimi Jensen, Diane B. Greene SM ’78, Mendel Rosenblum, Bill Swanson, annual donors to the Anesthesia Initiative Fund; and the National Institutes of Health.
Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency” - MIT …
WEBAug 27, 2024 · The AI + Education Summit was hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with speakers from the App Inventor Foundation, the Mayor’s Office of the City of Boston, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and more. Highlights included an onsite …
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WEBAug 15, 2024 · Christine Ortiz named director of MIT Technology and Policy Program. Ortiz is an internationally recognized researcher in biotechnology and biomaterials, advanced and additive manufacturing, and sustainable and socially-directed materials design. August 15, 2024. Read full story.