2+ hour, 23+ min ago  (472+ words) When we learn a new skill, the brain has to decide " cell by cell " what to change. New research from MIT suggests it can do that with surprising precision, sending targeted feedback to individual neurons so each one can adjust…...

15+ hour, 13+ min ago  (749+ words) In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. The concepts the model uses'are usually defined in advance…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (810+ words) When Associate Professor Eliezer Calo PhD "11 was applying for faculty positions, he was drawn to MIT not only because it"s his alma mater, but also because the Department of Biology places high value on exploring fundamental questions in biology....

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (591+ words) Expertise isn't easy to pass down. Take riding a bike: A seasoned cyclist might talk a beginner through the basics of how to sit and when to push off. But other skills, like how hard to pedal to keep balanced,…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (857+ words) Many engineering challenges come down to the same headache " too many knobs to turn and too few chances to test them. Whether tuning a power grid or designing a safer vehicle, each evaluation can be costly, and there may be…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (256+ words) This problem is in no way solved, in industry or even in research settings," says Nicholas Roy, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro). You've got to bring together a lot of pieces of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (363+ words) Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics'MIT News Centers, Labs, & Programs Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics During a summer internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Ivy Mahncke, an undergraduate student of robotics engineering at Olin College of Engineering, took a hands-on…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (596+ words) In industrial plants around the world, tiny bubbles cause big problems. Bubbles clog filters, disrupt chemical reactions, reduce throughput during biomanufacturing, and can even cause overheating in electronics and nuclear power plants. The researchers say the membranes, which repel water,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (588+ words) To overcome this problem, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and ETH Zurich/Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed an artificial intelligence-driven framework that learns which information about a cell's state is shared across different measurement modalities and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (882+ words) Just like each person has unique fingerprints, every CMOS chip has a distinctive "fingerprint" caused by tiny, random manufacturing variations. Engineers can leverage this unforgeable ID for authentication, to safeguard a device from attackers trying to steal private data. But…...