The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.
Proponents of this theory suggest that the event triggered the Younger Dryas (YD) cooling…
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Warm water is sneaking underneath the Thwaites Glacier — and rapidly melting it
In Antarctica, the warm ocean is stealthily attacking a major glacier through a previously unknown route — undermining its foundation on a daily basis.
As each rising tide lifts the coastal terminus of the southern continent’s…
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Function Calling at the Edge – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with…
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The origin of the sun’s magnetic field could lie close to its surface | MIT News
The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed that the sun’s…
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Math discovery provides new method to study cell activity, aging
New mathematical tools revealing how quickly cell proteins break down are poised to uncover deeper insights into how we age, according to a recently published paper co-authored by a Mississippi State researcher and his colleagues from Harvard…
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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships | MIT News
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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