Eleven MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won Fulbright grants to embark on projects overseas in the 2024-25 grant cycle. Two other students were offered awards but declined them to pursue other…
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Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought
Archaeologists have found that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
An analysis of the oldest archaeological sites on the island suggests that the first human occupation occurred…
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Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed | MIT News
Senior math major Janabel Xia is a study of a person in constant motion.
When she isn’t sorting algorithms and improving traffic control systems for driverless vehicles, she’s dancing as a member of at least four…
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Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics
When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume. Phase transitions in water are so common most of us probably don’t even think about them, but phase…
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Elaine Liu: Charging ahead | MIT News
MIT senior Elaine Siyu Liu doesn’t own an electric car, or any car. But she sees the impact of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewables on the grid as two pieces of an energy puzzle she wants to solve.
The U.S. Department…
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Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics | MIT News
When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume. Phase transitions in water are so common most of us probably don’t even think…
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Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024 | MIT News
The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 members and 24 international members, including five faculty members from MIT. Guoping Feng, Piotr Indyk, Daniel J. Kleitman, Daniela Rus, and Senthil Todadri were elected…
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Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars | MIT News
MIT senior Owen Dugan, graduate student Vittorio Colicci ’22, predoctoral research fellow Carine You ’22, and recent alumna Carina Letong Hong ’22 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarships. The…
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Underwater scans reveal lost submerged landscape
Researchers from the Life on the Edge project, a collaboration between the University of Bradford and the University of Split, has revealed a lost submerged landscape off the coast of Croatia using underwater scans.
Using state-of-the-art…
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Study identifies a succession of climatic changes one million years ago in Europe
A study of the Quibas site in Murcia, Spain, has revealed new data to suggest that one million years ago there was a succession of climatic changes in Europe.
The Quibas site, located in Sierra de Quibas, was discovered in 1994 after a group of…
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