DECOTA transforms open-ended survey responses into clear themes — helping policymakers make better use of underutilised public feedback
- AI tool DECOTA analyses free-text data rapidly, affordably, and with human-like accuracy
- Free-text data…
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AI tool makes sense of public opinion data in minutes, not months
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“Bridges of Understanding and Innovation” – On Campus | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Kator David Igbudu, a lecturer in the University of Nigeria’s Public Health Department, takes an active part in local initiatives against malaria and HIV. He involves youth in community campaigns to distribute mosquito nets and supports victims…
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Four from MIT awarded 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans | MIT News
MIT graduate students Sreekar Mantena and Arjun Ramani, and recent MIT alumni Rupert Li ’24 and Jupneet Singh ’23, have been named 2025 P.D. Soros Fellows. In addition, Soros Fellow Andre Ye will begin a PhD in…
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Conceptualizing psychological contract theory in the context of digital labor platforms, app workers, gig economy
Psychological contracts are the beliefs, perceptions, and informal obligations between an employer and an employee. Such contracts have long been conceived of as targeting a person, but with the emergence of algorithmic-enabled forms of…
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Newly Discovered Microbes Cleanse Water That Trickles Through Soil
Learn about a new phylum of microbes that lives in deep soil, a layer of the Earth that supports water cycling and nutrient cycling.
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Researchers Create Transformable Flat-to-Shape Objects Using Sewing Technology
04/09/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Researchers from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape…
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Hopping gives this tiny robot a leg up | MIT News
Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can’t, like deep into a collapsed building to search for survivors after an earthquake.
However, as they move through the rubble, tiny crawling robots…
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A lush, green Arabian Desert may have once linked Africa and Asia
The Arabian Desert, today the largest expanse of windswept sand dunes on Earth, experienced recurring periods of humidity millions of years ago, researchers report April 9 in Nature. The study may explain how mammals at that time…
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Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers
Prehistoric hunter-gatherers were likely skilled seafarers who could make long and challenging journeys.
Stone tools, animal bones and other artifacts unearthed in Malta indicate that humans first inhabited the Mediterranean island…
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Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models.The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an…
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