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- Study in India shows kids use different math skills at work vs. school February 5, 2025Students can excel at mental math in marketplace jobs but struggle with formal math in the classroom, and vice versa.Peter Dizikes | MIT News
- Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle” graphene February 5, 2025By determing how readily electron pairs flow through this material, scientists have taken a big step toward understanding its remarkable properties.Jennifer Chu | MIT News
- How telecommunications cables can image the ground beneath us February 4, 2025By making use of MIT’s existing fiber optic infrastructure, PhD student Hilary Chang imaged the ground underneath campus, a method that can be used to characterize seismic hazards.Paige Colley | EAPS
- Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium February 3, 2025The consortium will bring researchers and industry together to focus on impact.Liam McDonnell | Office of Innovation
- User-friendly system can help developers build more efficient simulations and AI models February 3, 2025By automatically generating code that leverages two types of data redundancy, the system saves bandwidth, memory, and computation.Adam Zewe | MIT News
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- New Quantum Sensors Promise Precision and Secrecy February 5, 2025Remote sensing—a category broad enough to include both personal medical monitors and space weather forecasting—is poised for a quantum upgrade, much like computing and cryptography before it. A new type of quantum sensor that promises both higher sensitivity and greater security has been proposed and tested in proof-of-concept form. What remains to be seen is […]Margo Anderson
- AI Expert Engineers Meta’s Video Recommendations February 4, 2025Every time someone views a video on Facebook or Instagram, they engage with Amey Dharwadker’s work. The machine learning engineering manager at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, leads Facebook’s video recommendations quality ranking team. Dharwadker’s work focuses on improving the quality and integrity of video recommendations for billions of daily active users globally, balancing technical excellence […]Willie D. Jones
- The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project February 4, 2025It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together. They had been working side by side for more […]Jack Copeland
- Better AI Is a Matter of Timing February 3, 2025AI is changing everything in data centers: New AI-specific chips, new cooling techniques, and new storage drives. Now even the method for keeping time is starting to change, with an announcement from SiTime that the company has developed a new clock that is optimized for AI workloads.The company says the development will lead to significant […]Dina Genkina
- These Graphene Tattoos Are Actually Biosensors February 3, 2025Imagine it’s the year 2040, and a 12-year-old kid with diabetes pops a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. A temporary tattoo on his forearm registers the uptick in sugar in his blood stream and sends that information to his phone. Data from this health-monitoring tattoo is also uploaded to the cloud so his […]Dmitry Kireev
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- Xenon gas protects brain cells against Alzheimer’s disease, clinical trial underway February 5, 2025Inhaled xenon gas reduced neuroinflammation, brain atrophy, and boosted protective neurons in mouse models of Alzheimer's. The post Xenon gas protects brain cells against Alzheimer’s disease, clinical trial underway appeared first on Advanced Science News.Kerry Day
- Scientists observe predator-prey dynamics in a quantum system February 4, 2025Scientists find predator-prey-like interactions in spinning particles, challenging physics and opening doors for quantum tech. The post Scientists observe predator-prey dynamics in a quantum system appeared first on Advanced Science News.Andrey Feldman
- Chirality could be the key to successful bone repair February 3, 2025Bone implants integrate better with the body when they mimic the natural handiness of molecules that make up our bones. The post Chirality could be the key to successful bone repair appeared first on Advanced Science News.Bradley van Paridon
- Computer system helps scientists understand how cancer could be reversed January 31, 2025BENEIN is a computer network that can identify the master regulators that cause normal cells to go cancerous. The post Computer system helps scientists understand how cancer could be reversed appeared first on Advanced Science News.Robert Lea
- COOLWEAR: Water immersion therapy without waste January 30, 2025The fluidic wearable device is less wasteful when it comes to water, but equally effective alternative to water immersion therapy. The post COOLWEAR: Water immersion therapy without waste appeared first on Advanced Science News.Jenna Flogeras