The good news is, that these valuable metals are often locked away in mining waste. Phoenix Tailings, a company founded by MIT alumni, is unlocking this potential. The pilot production facility is ...

The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells. MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium ...

By studying changes in gene expression, researchers learn how cells function at a molecular level, which could help them understand the development of certain diseases.

Harvard and MIT’s Environmental Sciences programs offer distinct advantages for US students, with Harvard focusing on ...

Associate Professor Thomas Heldt joined the MIT faculty in 2013 as a core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and ...

A recent study questions if large language models (LLMs) truly form coherent world models, despite their accurate outputs in complex tasks like generating directions or playing games.

MIT researchers developed theoretical foundations for methods that could identify the best way to aggregate genes into modules and efficiently learn the underlying cause-and-effect relationships among ...

Large language models can achieve incredible performance on some tasks without having internalized a coherent model of the world or the rules that govern it, researchers find. This means these models ...

Large language models can do impressive things, like write poetry or generate viable computer programs, even though these models are trained to predict words that come next in a piece of text.

At the turn of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about the conditions and culture of Black people in Philadelphia, ...

After 274 young women spent two-and-a-half hours working through 20 advanced math problems for the 16th annual Advantage ...