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Ants vs. Humans: Putting Group Smarts to the Test – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it’s rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and humans are also the only creatures in nature…
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Almost All Leading Large Language Models Show Signs of Mild Cognitive Impairment: Study
With the exception of ChatGPT 4o, almost all publicly available large language models subjected to a test called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) showed signs of mild cognitive impairment. These findings challenge the assumption that…
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MIT affiliates receive 2025 IEEE honors | MIT News
The IEEE recently announced the winners of their 2025 prestigious medals, technical awards, and fellowships. Four MIT faculty members, one staff member, and five alumni were recognized.
Regina Barzilay, the School of…
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Making classical music and math more accessible | MIT News
Senior Holden Mui appreciates the details in mathematics and music. A well-written orchestral piece and a well-designed competitive math problem both require a certain flair and a well-tuned sense of how to keep an…
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More people living without running water in U.S. cities since the global financial crisis, study reveals
More American cities — even those seen as affluent — are home to people living without running water as people are being ‘squeezed’ by unaffordable housing and the cost-of-living crisis, new research finds.
Published in Nature Cities, the study…
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Physicists Find Evidence for Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in Decays of Baryons and Beauty Hadrons
The Standard Model of particle physics predicts an asymmetry between matter and antimatter known as charge-parity (CP) violation. But the size of this asymmetry in the Standard Model is not large enough to account for the imbalance and the…
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This Suspension Backpack Makes Its Contents Lighter
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
Backpackers are all too familiar with the uncomfortable burden of a heavy bag, but scientists are exploring ways to lighten the load. In a recent
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These scientific feats set new records in 2024
2024 was studded with record-setting scientific discoveries. From tracing the origins of glow-in-the-dark animals to developing the world’s fastest microscope, these superlative feats captured our imagination.
Ancient…
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AI sniffs out whiskey flavor notes as well as the pros
Humans’ noses can be adept at detecting delicate hints of apple or smoke in a glass of whiskey. But with machine learning, computers might also be Whiskey Masters.
By connecting the molecular makeup of 16 different whiskies with…
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