In an unexpected twist, metal-rich nodules found on the seafloor are generating oxygen, new research suggests. This meager but steady supply of the vital gas may help support seafloor ecosystems in areas currently targeted for deep-sea…
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License plates of MIT | MIT News
What does your license plate say about you?
In the United States, more than 9 million vehicles carry personalized “vanity” license plates, in which preferred words, digits, or phrases replace an otherwise…
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The Visual Haystacks Benchmark! – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems…
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Can bioluminescent ‘milky seas’ be predicted?
For the first time, a scientist has used ocean and atmospheric data to find a milky sea, a huge expanse of luminous water, in past satellite images.
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Math program promotes global community for at-risk Ukrainian high schoolers | MIT News
When Sophia Breslavets first heard about Yulia’s Dream, the MIT Department of Mathematics’ Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science (PRIMES) for Ukrainian students, Russia had just invaded her…
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Sulfur was key to the first water on Earth
A chemical element that’s not even in H2O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a new study finds, bolstering a similar claim made a year ago. The discovery means our planet was born with all it needed to create its…
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Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in Malmesbury
Archaeologists have discovered an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the grounds of the Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury, England.
The Old Bell Hotel is located adjacent to Malmesbury Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
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Neural networks made of light
Scientists propose a new way of implementing a neural network with an optical system which could make machine learning more sustainable in the future. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have published their new…
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Sticking a Pin in Cancer – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
“Who will watch the watchers?” asked Roman poet Juvenal way back in the first century C.E. Nature has been addressing that very question for much, much longer. The human body contains proteins that are designed to protect us from cancerous…
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