The electronics business is approaching a restrict to the variety of transistors that may be packed onto the floor of a pc chip. So, chip producers wish to construct up fairly than out. As a substitute of compressing ever-smaller transistors onto a single floor, the business is aiming to stack a number of surfaces of…

At an early age, Katie Spivakovsky realized to review the world from completely different angles. Dinner-table conversations at her household’s dwelling in Menlo Park, California, usually leaned towards matters just like the Maillard response — the chemistry behind meals browning — or the fascinating mysteries of prime numbers. Spivakovsky’s mother and father, one among whom…

MIT scientists have launched a strong, open-source AI mannequin, known as Boltz-1, that might considerably speed up biomedical analysis and drug improvement. Developed by a group of researchers within the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Studying in Well being, Boltz-1 is the primary totally open-source mannequin that achieves state-of-the-art efficiency on the stage of AlphaFold3, the…

With the quilt of anonymity and the corporate of strangers, the attraction of the digital world is rising as a spot to hunt out psychological well being assist. This phenomenon is buoyed by the truth that over 150 million folks in the US dwell in federally designated psychological well being skilled scarcity areas. “I really want…

Lara Ozkan, an MIT senior from Oradell, New Jersey, has been chosen as a 2025 Marshall Scholar and can start graduate research in the UK subsequent fall. Funded by the British authorities, the Marshall Scholarship awards American college students of excessive tutorial achievement with the chance to pursue graduate research in any subject at any…

5 MIT college members and two extra alumni had been lately named to the 2024 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The distinction is introduced yearly by Schmidt Futures, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that goals to speed up scientific innovation.  Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative aimed…