Changing Car Culture Can Benefit Our Health and Our Planet
We need to rethink the American love affair with the automobile and redesign cities to reduce car pollution
Anthropologist Daniel Miller has observed that an alien visiting…
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Dealing with the limitations of our noisy world | MIT News
Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural Women’s Technology Program. The monthlong summer academic experience gives young women a hands-on…
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Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholars | MIT News
This article was updated on April 23 to reflect the promotion of Gosha Geogdzhayev from alternate to winner of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
MIT seniors Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla have won the prestigious…
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How two outsiders tackled the mystery of arithmetic progressions
Consider this sequence of numbers: 5, 7, 9. Can you spot the pattern? Here’s another with the same pattern: 15, 19, 23. One more: 232, 235, 238.
“Three equally spaced things,” says Raghu Meka, a computer scientist at UCLA….
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Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
February 21, 2024
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Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory
Studies continue to show…
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AI Chatbot Brains Are Going Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In restaurants around the world, from Shanghai to New York, robots are cooking meals. They make burgers and dosas, pizzas and stir-fries, in much the same way robots have made other things for the past 50 years: by following instructions…
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The Sophisticated Threads behind a Hat That Senses Traffic Lights
February 21, 2024
4 min read
The Sophisticated Threads behind a Hat That Senses Traffic Lights
A new technique to make electronic fibers could help solve wearable technology’s flexibility problem
Hundreds of…
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This Astrophysicist Makes Stellar Nurseries That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
This Astrophysicist Makes Stellar Nurseries That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
How artist and astrophysicist Nia Imara makes 3-D prints of the birth of stars
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What Apple’s New Vision Pro Headset Might Do to Our Brain
Apple released its long-awaited Vision Pro mixed-reality headset this month. The company describes the device, which has a starting price of $3,500, as a “spatial computer,” an alternative to a standard laptop or desktop. Apple’s ads have
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Automated method helps researchers quantify uncertainty in their predictions | MIT News
Pollsters trying to predict presidential election results and physicists searching for distant exoplanets have at least one thing in common: They often use a tried-and-true scientific technique called Bayesian…
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