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Bug-Sized Robots Keep Flying After Wing Damage
Artificial muscles created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers can enable insect-sized aerial robots to repair themselves following damage.
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Engineers Discover Way to Control Atomic Nuclei as 'Qubits'
MIT engineers have formulated a method of controlling the spins of atomic nuclei as quantum bits using two different-colored laser beams.
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A New Way for Quantum Computing Systems to Keep Their Cool
A wireless technique enables a super-cold quantum computer to send and receive data without generating too much error-causing heat.
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Ingestible Sensor Could Help Doctors Pinpoint GI Difficulties
An ingestible sensor can be monitored as it travels through the digestive tract, helping doctors to diagnose gastrointestinal ailments more precisely.
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AI Model Can Detect Future Lung Cancer Risk
A new artificial intelligence tool can perform lung cancer risk assessments without the help of a radiologist.
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A Faster Way to Preserve Privacy Online
Researchers have developed a method for retrieving private information from a database that is approximately 30 times faster than comparable methods.
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Computational System Streamlines Design of Fluidic Devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers were part of a team that built a new system to simplify the process of designing fluidic devices.
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Engineers Build Battery-Free, Wireless Underwater Camera
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed a battery-free, wireless underwater camera.
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AI System Makes Models Like DALL-E 2 More Creative
The Composable Diffusion model can help artificial intelligence-based image generators produce more complex imagery with better comprehension.
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Researchers Discover Major Roadblock in Alleviating Network Congestion
Researchers found congestion control algorithms fail to prevent certain users from taking up all the bandwidth.
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Smart Textiles Sense How Their Users Are Moving
Researchers have fabricated smart textiles that can sense their wearer's posture and motions.
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Robotic Lightning Bugs Take Flight
Fireflies inspired researchers to build flying, light-emitting robots that facilitate motion tracking and communication.
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Model Helps Identify Mutations That Drive Cancer
Researchers created a probabilistic computer model that rapidly scans the genome of cancer cells to identify cancer-driving mutations.
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CRISPR-Based Map Ties Every Human Gene to Its Function
A group of researchers have published the first comprehensive functional map of genes expressed in human cells.
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Hallucinating to Better Text Translation
Scientists developed the VALHALLA machine learning method to hallucinate images of written words, and using those to help translate that text into target languages...
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Unpacking Black-Box Models
A mathematical framework aims to quantify and evaluate the understandability of a machine learning model's explanations for its predictions.
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Predicting Others' Behavior on the Road With Artificial Intelligence
A new machine learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists in real-time.
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Engineers Use AI to Capture Complexity of Breaking Waves
An international research team lleveraged machine learning to model how waves break, which could help improve the design of offshore structures and climate prediction...
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Estimating the Informativeness of Data
MIT researchers can now estimate how much information data are likely to contain, in a more accurate and scalable way than previous methods.
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