A new automated system identified far more sepsis infections than 2 commonly used methods, researchers report.
A new machine-learning model makes more accurate predictions about ocean currents, which could help with tracking plastic pollution and oil spills, and aid in search and rescue.
Models trained using common data-collection techniques judge rule violations more harshly than humans would, researchers report.
The system they developed eliminates a source of bias in simulations, leading to improved algorithms that can boost the performance of applications.
In a recent essay, Professor Lily L. Tsai shares ideas on how to include future generations, who will face the climate crisis we’ve created, in our definition of our collective society.
The bioderived “smart sutures” could help patients heal after bowel resection or other types of surgery.
A cancer vaccine combining checkpoint blockade therapy and a STING-activating drug eliminates tumors and prevents recurrence in mice.
A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.
A long-term study from Bangladesh co-authored by MIT economist Clare Balboni presents a promising solution to chronic poverty in the developing world, suggesting that when rural poor people receive a one-time capital boost, it helps them accumulate assets, find better occupations and climb out of poverty.
In 1856, amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote’s paper “Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays,” was published in the American Journal of Science and Arts.
MIT engineers’ new technique analyzes the 3D organization of the genome at a resolution 100 times higher than before.
The drought that has enveloped southwestern North America for the past 22 years is the region’s driest megadrought—defined as a drought lasting two decades or longer — since at least the year 800, according to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
In Kenya, property rights are granted more often by democratic regimes than by autocrats — but decisions tend to be politically motivated regardless of who’s in charge.
A team led by the Institute for Protein Design devised machine-learning algorithms that created light-emitting enzymes called luciferases.
New method for assessing pain and pain relief uncovers a neurological legacy of drug use, passed down genetically to male offspring
A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.
Artificial intelligence is poised to revolutionize the field of radiology as a tool to improve disease detection, diagnosis, and clinical care.
Risk of severe maternal mortality for racial and ethnic minority women is three times as high as for non-Hispanic white women
A new method could provide detailed information about internal structures, voids, and cracks, based solely on data about exterior conditions.
A new low-temperature growth and fabrication technology allows the integration of 2D materials directly onto a silicon circuit, which could lead to denser and more powerful chips.