When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid part to a strong part, leading to a drastic change in properties like density and quantity. Section transitions in water are so widespread most of us in all probability don’t even take into consideration them, however part transitions in novel supplies or complicated bodily programs are an…

Think about you and a pal are taking part in a recreation the place your aim is to speak secret messages to one another utilizing solely cryptic sentences. Your pal's job is to guess the key message behind your sentences. Typically, you give clues straight, and different instances, your pal has to guess the message…

In June 2007, Apple unveiled the primary iPhone. However the firm made a strategic determination about iPhone software program: its new App Retailer can be a walled backyard. An iPhone consumer wouldn’t have the ability to set up functions that Apple itself hadn’t vetted, a minimum of not with out breaking Apple’s phrases of service.…

Think about a slime-like robotic that may seamlessly change its form to squeeze by slim areas, which might be deployed contained in the human physique to take away an undesirable merchandise. Whereas such a robotic doesn't but exist outdoors a laboratory, researchers are working to develop reconfigurable mushy robots for functions in well being care,…

Ashutosh Kumar is a classically skilled supplies engineer. Having grown up with a ardour for making issues, he has explored metal design and studied stress fractures in alloys. All through Kumar’s schooling, nevertheless, he was additionally drawn to biology and medication. When he was accepted into an undergraduate metallurgical engineering and supplies science program at…

How is the sector of synthetic intelligence evolving and what does it imply for the way forward for work, training, and humanity? MIT President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lined all that and extra in a wide-ranging dialogue on MIT’s campus Might 2. The success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT massive language fashions has helped…

From cutting-edge robotics, design, and bioengineering to sustainable vitality options, ocean engineering, nanotechnology, and progressive supplies science, MechE college students and their advisors are doing extremely progressive work. The graduate college students highlighted right here signify a snapshot of the nice work in progress this spring throughout the Division of Mechanical Engineering, and show the…

The latest ransomware assault on ChangeHealthcare, which severed the community connecting well being care suppliers, pharmacies, and hospitals with medical health insurance firms, demonstrates simply how disruptive provide chain assaults may be. On this case, it hindered the power of these offering medical companies to submit insurance coverage claims and obtain funds. This form of…

A single {photograph} presents glimpses into the creator’s world — their pursuits and emotions a couple of topic or house. However what about creators behind the applied sciences that assist to make these photographs potential?  MIT Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science Affiliate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley is one such individual, who has designed all…

Massive language fashions (LLMs) have gotten more and more helpful for programming and robotics duties, however for extra difficult reasoning issues, the hole between these methods and people looms giant. With out the power to be taught new ideas like people do, these methods fail to type good abstractions — primarily, high-level representations of advanced…

Julie Shah ’04, SM ’06, PhD ’11, the H.N. Slater Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been named the brand new head of the Division of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), efficient Might 1. “Julie brings an distinctive file of visionary and interdisciplinary management to this position. She has made substantial technical contributions within the discipline…

How can MIT’s neighborhood leverage generative AI to assist studying and work on campus and past? At MIT’s Pageant of Studying 2024, school and instructors, college students, workers, and alumni exchanged views in regards to the digital instruments and improvements they’re experimenting with within the classroom. Panelists agreed that generative AI must be used to…