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Scale-rich network-based metamaterials
Researchers have developed scale-rich network-based metamaterials that embed network heterogeneity to achieve high strength and impact resistance.
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MIT scientists turn immune cells into cancer killers inside the body
MIT researchers reprogrammed donor NK cells inside living mice to eliminate lymphoma in three weeks without rejection.
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MIT Scientists Break a 20-Year Rule And Unlock Never-Before-Seen Crystal Structures
MIT scientists break a 20-year rule to unlock new crystal structures
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MIT breakthrough could transform how scientists design materials at the nanoscale
MIT researchers have broken a twenty-year rule by creating new nanoparticle lattices using flexible ligands.
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Flexible connectors enable new designer materials built from nanoparticles
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Scientists Left AI Alone on a Deserted Island With Nothing to Do. It Invented Games and Started Behaving Like Children at Play
MIT researchers discovered that AI agents left without tasks on a virtual island begin to invent games and engage in play-like behavior.
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Trapped With Nothing to Do, Bored AI Agents Invented Games From Scratch
Stranded alone on a virtual desert island by researchers, idle AI agents spontaneously invented and played their own games from scratch.
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MIT researchers say Claude agents left on a virtual island began to play
MIT researchers observe Claude AI agents beginning to play after being left stranded on a virtual island.
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Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Very Weird.
Researchers stranded an AI agent on a virtual island, where it invented games and began behaving like a child at play.
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AI-Generated Content Can Plant Fake Memories, Researchers Say
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Nanoparticle injection reprograms NK immune cells to fight cancer and autoimmune disorders
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Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away
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RamanOmics decodes the spatial vibrational–molecular architecture of senescence in aging and repair
MIT researchers have developed a non-destructive AI-powered method using Raman microscopy to identify aging 'zombie cells' in human tissue.
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Closed-loop auditory stimulation in phase with slow waves during sleep enhances cerebrospinal fluid flow in humans
New research indicates that closed-loop auditory stimulation using pink noise during sleep can enhance the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the human brain.
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America is asking the wrong question about its $40 trillion in debt, this MIT expert warns
An MIT expert warns that the U.S. is focusing on the wrong questions regarding its $40 trillion national debt and rising interest expenses.
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Artists Want to Prove Their Work Was Stolen by AI. A New Study Says That’s Impossible
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Physicists watch a material's electrons assemble, and reassemble, into coexisting phases
MIT physicists have captured the real-time assembly and reassembly of competing electron phases within a specialized quantum material.
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Birdsong similar to human language, study finds
New scientific research suggests birdsong and whale songs share a statistical, language-like structure similar to human communication.
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The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
The U.S. Department of Energy has launched the Genesis Mission, a multi-billion dollar initiative to accelerate engineering through next-gen supercomputing.
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MIT Scientists Grew Artificial Blood Vessels In The Lab Using Magnets
MIT engineers have developed a precise method to grow and redirect artificial blood vessels and microvascular networks using magnetic fields.
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AI unlocks QLED recipe that doubles efficiency and boosts lifetime 40-fold
AI-driven reverse engineering has unlocked a new QLED recipe, doubling efficiency and increasing device lifetimes by 40-fold.
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MIT Engineers Create Robot That Can Fly and Swim
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This MIT robot flies through the air then dives underwater using the same wings
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A Hidden Nuclear Weapon Could Already Be Orbiting Earth. This MIT Physicist Has a Plan to Find It
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Agentic AI Architecture
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Chinese universities gain ground on UK and US in global rankings
Chinese universities are ascending in international academic rankings while US and UK institutions face mixed results.
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Two years, 2 million words: How a brain implant transformed an ALS patient’s life
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Reciprocal Generosity is Abandoned Inside Unequal Social Relationships
New research from MIT reveals that the tendency to return favors is heavily dependent on the perceived equality of the social relationship.
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To discover new physics, AI may need to 'unlearn' the old one
AI trained on known physics may need to 'forget' old rules to uncover new discoveries—posing a paradox for researchers