The preschool boost The lottery created a natural experiment, allowing the researchers to track the educational outcomes of two otherwise similar groups of students when one group attended preschool while the other…
Month: April 2023
MIT’s Putnam dynasty continues
MIT’s Putnam dynasty continues MIT took all five top spots in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for the third year in a row and won the prize for the top woman…
Three takes on tomorrow’s materials
Three takes on tomorrow’s materials Lights, muscles, action Ritu Raman’s engineered muscle cells contract in response to light—and could lead to biologically based robots that adapt to their environment or repair themselves…
Going digital makes aid programs more effective
Going digital makes aid programs more effective For years, the Indonesian government sent 10-kilo bags of rice to villages, where local leaders were supposed to distribute them to poor residents every month….
Custom-made robotic hearts beat true
Custom-made robotic hearts beat true No two hearts beat alike—and that can make it more complicated to treat heart disease. But a team of MIT engineers and others has developed a way…
‘Mother of all of us’
‘Mother of all of us’ Priscilla King Gray, the wife of former MIT president Paul Gray ’54, SM ’55, ScD ’60, and cofounder of the MIT Public Service Center (since renamed the…
GI trouble? Swallow this sensor.
GI trouble? Swallow this sensor. The tiny sensor measures a magnetic field produced by an electromagnetic coil outside the body. Its progress can be calculated from the measurements because the field’s strength…
You can play all of Jedi: Survivor in bullet time
You can play all of Jedi: Survivor in bullet time Ahead of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s launch in a few days, the developers at Respawn Entertainment are showing off some of the…
A developer exploited an API flaw to provide free access to GPT-4
A developer exploited an API flaw to provide free access to GPT-4 A developer is attempting to reverse-engineer APIs to grant anyone free access to popular AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 —…
Electric airplane towing concept could mean longer zero-emission flights
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