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A Step Toward Safe And Reliable Autopilots For Flying

A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.

Turning Food Waste Back Into Food

Fermenting used food can improve crop growth

Simple Bioreactor Makes ‘Gut Check’ More Practical

Rice, Baylor device mimics intestines to show how invading bacteria cause disease

Embracing Life’s Surprises

Unexpected experimental results often give Associate Professor Cem Tasan new insights into how metals break and deform — and how to design damage-resistant alloys.

New Model Offers A Way To Speed Up Drug Discovery

By applying a language model to protein-drug interactions, researchers can quickly screen large libraries of potential drug compounds.

2D Compound Shows Unique Versatility

Multifunctional nanomaterial proposed by Rice could enhance solar energy, quantum computing

Wearables Can Track COVID Symptoms, Other Diseases

If you become ill with COVID-19, your smartwatch can track the progression of your symptoms, and could even show how sick you become.

Rice ‘Flashes’ New 2d Materials

Metastable metallic nanoparticles could find use in electronics, optics

MIT Researchers Make Language Models Scalable Self-Learners

The scientists used a natural language-based logical inference dataset to create smaller language models that outperformed much larger counterparts.

New Findings Reveal How The Brain’s Memory Center Filters Out Unimportant Details

A study in mice that sheds light on how the brain remembers key details could one day help treat disorders impacting memory

Tumors Partially Destroyed with Sound Don’t Come Back

Technique pioneered in rats at the University of Michigan could improve outcomes for cancer and neurological conditions

Carbon Monoxide Reduced to Valuable Chemical

Rice engineers’ reactor converts gas directly into acetic acid

Graphene-hBN Breakthrough to Spur New LEDs, Quantum Computing

Study uncovers first method for producing high-quality, wafer-scale, single-layer hexagonal boron nitride

Megawatt Electrical Motor Designed By MIT Engineers Could Help Electrify Aviation

Technology demonstrations show the machine’s major components achieve the required performance.

Fermi Space Telescope Offers 'Best Look Ever' at Giant Flare

Brilliant magnetar eruption in neighboring galaxy could aid search in the Milky Way

How Can I Pay for That? U-M Researchers Find Technology Solutions to Health Care Costs

New developments in technology may provide tools to help patients and health care providers make cost-informed decisions and connect patients to additional resources if they cannot afford their prescribed medications, say University of Michigan researchers.

Scaling Audio-Visual Learning Without Labels

A new multimodal technique blends major self-supervised learning methods to learn more similarly to humans.

Smarter 3D Printing Makes Better Parts Faster

Software for powder bed fusion printers optimizes laser's printing path