Coming from a small high school in rural South Dakota that didn’t offer advanced placement (AP) classes, Titus Roesler ’25 didn’t have the easiest start at MIT. But when his efforts to catch up academically to his…
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Your Chatbot “Friend” Is Only Pretending to Like You
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Last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, tweaked ChatGPT to make it act more…
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An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna
Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue.
For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day Australia contributed to the…
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Total Solar Eclipses Can Trigger Dawn Behavior in Birds, Scientists Say
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial intelligence analyses of nearly 100,000…
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Unexpected Mixture of Hydrogen Cyanide and Hydrocarbons May Exist on Saturn’s Moon Titan
Titan offers great motivation for the detailed study of organic chemistry in unconventional conditions. Nonpolar hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane exist on this Saturnian moon in plentitude, alongside one of the most prebiotically…
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Creating AI that matters | MIT News
When it comes to artificial intelligence, MIT and IBM were there at the beginning: laying foundational work and creating some of the first programs — AI predecessors — and theorizing how machine “intelligence”…
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Archaeologists uncover 5,500-year-old monumental landscape in Jordan
Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen have uncovered a large 5,500-year-old monumental landscape at Murayghat in the rocky hills of central Jordan.
The landscape dates to a transitional period when the Chalcolithic culture (4500–3700…
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Major discoveries at Bremenium Roman Fort
Located in Northumberland, England, Bremenium was constructed around AD 80 to defend an extension of Dere Street, a Roman road running from York to Corbridge north of Hadrian’s Wall.
Following the characteristic playing-card layout typical of…
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What if AI could help students learn, not just do assignments for them? — Harvard Gazette
Educators’ concerns are running high when it comes to AI and how it may undermine teaching and learning. But what if teachers could find ways to use AI to measurably help students learn, rather than simply do their work for them?
Across…
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Scientists stumble on a hidden quantum trick in 2D materials
When arranged in just the right ways, two-dimensional materials can display unusual and valuable quantum effects such as superconductivity and exotic types of magnetism. Understanding why these effects arise, and how to control them, remains one…
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