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New AI model transforms understanding of metal-organic...

March 13, 2023

How does an iPhone predict the next word you’re going to type in your messages? The technology behind this, and also at the core of many AI applications, is called a transformer; a deep-learning algorithm that detects patterns in datasets.

Interactive 'virtual farm' website expands access to...

March 13, 2023

A new interactive “carbon calculator” tool can help dairy farmers see sustainability principles in action and improve farm management decisions related to climate change.

Cow dung is a possible sustainable material...

March 13, 2023

Livestock dung could be used to create the next generation of cellulosic materials, according to a new report.

A quick new way to screen virus...

March 13, 2023

A whole new world of antibiotics is waiting inside the viruses that infect bacteria. Scientists are making it easier to study them.

Researchers identify key gene controlling cadmium distribution...

March 13, 2023

Cadmium (Cd), a toxic heavy metal contaminant of cultivated land, is harmful to humans through its accumulation in crops, especially rice. Therefore, strategies to limit Cd accumulation in rice grains are urgently needed. In rice, Cd is taken up from the soil by the roots and then transported to tissues aboveground. The nodes, which are vascular bundles connected to the roots, leaves and panicles, play an important role in the redirection of Cd in rice.

Minke whales represent smallest size threshold that...

March 13, 2023

A new study of Antarctic minke whales reveals a minimum size limit for whales employing the highly efficient “lunge-feeding” strategy that enabled the blue whale to become the largest animal on Earth.

3 Questions: Mriganka Sur on the research...

March 13, 2023

Rett syndrome is a devastating developmental disorder, principally occurring in girls, caused by mutations in the gene MECP2 that leads to severe cognitive, motor, and other symptoms. As such, the March 10 approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the first-ever treatment for the disorder, a drug called Trofinetide based on the natural protein IGF-1, brings new hope to patients and their families. The approval is also a dream come true for Mriganka Sur, Newton Professor of...

Triggering bitter taste receptors could someday treat...

March 13, 2023

Surprisingly, bitter taste receptors are not only located in the mouth, but also elsewhere in the body, including the airways. Activating those receptors opens up lung passageways, so they’re a potential target for treating asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Now, researchers report that they have designed a potent and selective compound that could lead the way to such therapies.

New “traffic cop” algorithm helps a drone...

March 13, 2023

How fresh are your data? For drones searching a disaster zone or robots inspecting a building, working with the freshest data is key to locating a survivor or reporting a potential hazard. But when multiple robots simultaneously relay time-sensitive information over a wireless network, a traffic jam of data can ensue. Any information that gets through is too stale to consider as a useful, real-time report. Now, MIT engineers may have a solution. They’ve developed a method to tailor...

It’s a weird, weird quantum world

March 10, 2023

In 1994, as Professor Peter Shor PhD ’85 tells it, internal seminars at AT&T Bell Labs were lively affairs. The audience of physicists was an active and inquisitive bunch, often pelting speakers with questions throughout their talks. Shor, who worked at Bell Labs at the time, remembers several occasions when a speaker couldn’t get past their third slide, as they attempted to address a rapid line of questioning before their time was up. That year, when Shor took his...

Engaging enterprises with the climate crisis

March 10, 2023

Almost every large corporation is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but lacks a roadmap to get there, says John Sterman, professor of management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, co-director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and leader of its Climate Pathways Project. Sterman and colleagues offer a suite of well-honed strategies to smooth this journey, including a free global climate policy simulator called En-ROADS deployed in workshops that have educated more than 230,000 people,...

Shrinky Dinks, nail polish, and smelly bacteria

March 10, 2023

In a lab on the fourth floor of MIT’s Building 56, a group of Massachusetts high school students gathered around a device that measures conductivity. Vincent Nguyen, 15, from Saugus, thought of the times the material on their sample electrode flaked off the moment they took it out of the oven. Or how the electrode would fold weirdly onto itself. The big fails were kind of funny, but discouraging. The students had worked for a month, experimenting with different...

Celebrating a decade of a more sustainable...

March 10, 2023

When MIT’s Office of Sustainability (MITOS) first launched in 2013, it was charged with integrating sustainability across all levels of campus by engaging the collective brainpower of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and partners. At the eighth annual Sustainability Connect, MITOS’s signature event, held nearly a decade later, the room was filled with MIT community members representing 67 different departments, labs, and centers — demonstrating the breadth of engagement across MIT. Held on Feb. 14 and hosting more than 100...

How to assemble a complete jaw

March 10, 2023

The skeleton, tendons, and glands of a functional jaw all derive from the same population of stem cells, which arise from a cell population known as neural crest. To discover how these neural crest-derived cells know to make the right type of cell in the right location, researchers focused on a particular gene, Nr5a2, that was active in a region of the face that makes tendons and glands, but not skeleton. To understand the role of Nr5a2, the scientists...

Jewel beetles evolve to see new colors...

March 10, 2023

Jewel beetles are striking insects, easily recognized by their vivid colors and metallic sheen. New research investigated the complex evolutionary history of jewel beetles’ vision.

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