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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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WEB3 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.
Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
WEBInstead, false news speeds faster around Twitter due to people retweeting inaccurate news items. “When we removed all of the bots in our dataset, [the] differences between the spread of false and true news stood,”says Soroush Vosoughi, a co-author of the new paper and a postdoc at LSM whose PhD research helped give rise to the current study.
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 …
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.
When the lights turned on in the universe | MIT News
WEBAug 16, 2024 · Redshift is a measure of how much a wave’s frequency has decreased, and in an astrophysical context, it can be used to determine how long a wave of light has been traveling and how far away its source is, while accounting for the expansion of the universe. “The higher the redshift, the closer to the beginning of the universe you get ...
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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.
On technology in schools, think evolution, not revolution
WEB5 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 …
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 …
With sustainable cement, startup aims to eliminate gigatons
WEBAug 9, 2024 · Now the company is building a commercial-scale manufacturing plant in Holyoke, Massachusetts, that will be able to produce 30,000 tons of cement per year. The new plant is slated to come online as early as 2026.