Scientists Unveil Shape-Shifting Robot That Flows Like Liquid and Hardens Like Steel In a groundbreaking advancement in robotics, scientists have unveiled a shape-shifting robot that can flow like a liquid and harden like steel. This futuristic technology, which once seemed…
How AI Is Quietly Taking Over These Common Jobs AI is quietly reshaping the workforce — but not always in the dramatic, sci-fi way we might imagine. No, it’s not about robots taking over the world (at least, not yet).…
Biology is never simple. As researchers make strides in reading and editing genes to treat disease, for instance, a growing body of evidence suggests that the proteins and metabolites surrounding those genes can’t be ignored. The MIT spinout ReviveMed has…
All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions facilitate everything from transcribing DNA and controlling cell division to higher-level functions in complex organisms. Much remains unclear, however, about how these functions are orchestrated…
A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to uncover ancient systems with potential to expand the genome editing toolbox. These systems, which the…
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GlobalFoundries. MIT and GlobalFoundries (GF), a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, have announced a new research agreement to jointly pursue advancements and innovations for enhancing the performance…
MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed engineering honors. The Washington Award is conferred to “an engineer(s) whose professional attainments have preeminently advanced the welfare of…
Personalizing LLMs is essential for applications such as virtual assistants and content recommendations, ensuring responses align with individual user preferences. Unlike traditional approaches that optimize models based on aggregated user feedback, personalization aims to capture the diversity of individual perspectives…
Object-centric learning (OCL) is an area of computer vision that aims to decompose visual scenes into distinct objects, enabling advanced vision tasks such as prediction, reasoning, and decision-making. Traditional methods in visual recognition often rely on feature extraction without explicitly…
Modern bioinformatics research is characterized by the constant emergence of complex data sources and analytical challenges. Researchers routinely confront tasks that require the synthesis of diverse datasets, the execution of iterative analyses, and the interpretation of subtle biological signals. High-throughput…