MIT Technology ReviewOpinion

The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion

This DNA is arguably the 21st century’s most celebrated discovery in human evolution. But in 2024, a pair of French ...
Indiatimes

Meet Patrick Winston: MIT professor whose one-hour lecture stayed packed for 40 years and it wasn’t about STEM

For decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one lecture stood out not for equations or algorithms, but for a skill that quietly shapes success across every field. Delivered by Patrick ...
Live Science

All 5 'letters' of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life?

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WGBH

MIT requires every student to know how to swim. But why?

The legend on MIT’s campus goes that students once had to leap into the Charles River and swim across its dirty water without stopping to graduate. That was never true. But the institution does ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Agent workflows make transport a first-order ...
The Providence Journal

How DNA and ballistics tie Claudio Neves Valente to Brown, MIT shootings

Investigators searching the Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility where Brown University shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead Thursday, Dec. 18, have recovered two 9mm pistols, more ...
Yahoo

Ballistic, DNA test connect suspect to Brown University, MIT professor shootings

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a joint statement released by the Boston Division of the FBI and ATF revealed that ballistic and DNA testing connected ...
New York Post

MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro found shot dead in home in swanky Mass. neighborhood

A prominent nuclear science professor at MIT was shot and killed inside his home in a swanky Massachusetts neighborhood Monday night, with police mum on details of the tragic slaying. Nuno Loureiro, ...
The Boston Globe

Budget cuts come to MIT’s libraries

Facing a $300 million shortfall, MIT is tightening its budget by slashing the quietest corners of its Cambridge campus: the libraries. Three of MIT’s five physical libraries will be shuttered or ...
Popular Science

How scientists analyze ancient DNA from old bones

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The Boston Globe

Former MIT scientist funded by Epstein made racist and sexist claims in private emails

Joscha Bach, an AI researcher, worked at the MIT Media Lab from 2014 to 2016. He was hired in large part because of Epstein’s donations. Joscha Bach, a former MIT Media Lab researcher whose work there ...
Science Daily

MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...