Oct 19, 2022 · Now MIT researchers have a tool that may improve the aim of future asteroid-targeting missions. The team has developed a method to map an asteroid’s interior structure, or density distribution, based on how the asteroid’s spin changes as it makes a close encounter with more massive objects like the Earth.

May 10, 2023 · The MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and the closely affiliated nonprofit Cortico today announced the launch of a broad-based effort that draws on expertise in face-to-face human dialogue, digital networks, and machine learning to develop safe and trusted spaces for meaningful, nonpolarizing human connection and civic impact.

Nov 5, 2024 · Large language models can achieve incredible performance on some tasks without having internalized a coherent model of the world or the rules that govern it, MIT researchers find. This means these models are likely to fail unexpectedly if they are deployed in situations where the environment or task slightly changes.

Mar 29, 2024 · Caption: “I’d say life is short, so aim high,” Jaramillo says. “As scientists and engineers that means tackling the hard problems because the easy ones have been solved and, besides, there’s little satisfaction in them.”

Oct 28, 2022 · Angela Koehler, an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT, has made it her mission to find ways to drug “undruggable” targets. By taking aim at proteins that interact with these targets, she can indirectly disable them or reduce their impact.

Jun 9, 2009 · Mathematicians take aim at 'phantom' traffic jams. New model could help design better roads. Anne Trafton ...

Oct 24, 2022 · A good math problem is like a walled, secret garden, according to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) head and MIT Professor Asu Ozdaglar, who was addressing an audience of middle and high school female-identifying mathematics contestants at the 14th annual Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) event.

Jul 12, 2023 · “The aim, with respect to this new capacity of generating synthetic protein structures, opens up a myriad of enhanced capabilities, such as better binders. This means engineering proteins that can attach to other molecules more efficiently and selectively, with widespread implications related to targeted drug delivery and biotechnology, where ...

Sep 20, 2006 · With U.S. electricity demand projected to increase by nearly 50 percent over the next 25 years, the Bush administration and others see nuclear power as an increasingly attractive energy option.

Feb 14, 2022 · Twenty-seven bold, interdisciplinary research projects have been selected as finalists in the first MIT Climate Grand Challenges competition. A subset will make up a portfolio of multiyear projects that will receive additional funding and other support to develop high-impact, science-based mitigation and adaptation solutions on an accelerated basis.