2+ hour, 7+ min ago   (596+ words) How can artificial intelligence step out of a screen and become something we can physically touch and interact with? "It was an ambitious but impractical early attempt at a home kitchen computer," says Payne, an architecture graduate student. "It made…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (289+ words) This tiny worm is beautiful " elegant both in its appearance and in its many contributions to our understanding of the biological universe in which we live," says Horvitz, who in 2002 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (709+ words) A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine dose. In studies in mice, the researchers showed that an mRNA influenza vaccine delivered with their new lipid nanoparticle could…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (302+ words) This challenge became even more familiar to scientists in the years during the Covid-19 pandemic. Think back to the time (and time and time again), when new variants emerged just as vaccines were being rolled out. Influenza behaves like a…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (614+ words) Researchers at MIT and other institutions have identified compounds that can fight off viral infection by activating a defense pathway inside host cells. These compounds, they believe, could be used as antiviral drugs that work against not just one but…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago   (748+ words) Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to detect a variety of diseases, including cancer or infectious diseases such as influenza and HIV. These electrochemical sensors make use of a…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (504+ words) Modern fighter jets contain hundreds or even thousands of sensors. Some of those sensors collect data every second, others every nanosecond. For the engineering teams building and testing those jets, all those data points are hugely valuable " if they can…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (788+ words) Social security numbers stolen. Public transport halted. Hospital systems frozen until ransoms are paid. These are some of the damaging consequences of unsecure memory in computer systems. Over the past decade, public awareness of such cyberattacks has intensified, as their…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (608+ words) This strategy could lead to the development of vaccines that only need to be given once, for infectious diseases including HIV or SARS-CoV-2, the researchers say. Love and Darrell Irvine, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (210+ words) Executive Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor announced the appointment today in an email to MIT faculty and staff. "I believe that Gaspare will be an incredible asset to MIT, bringing wide-ranging experience supporting faculty, researchers, staff, and students and…...