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Advancements in Nuclear Fuel Optimization for Next-Generation Reactors
In 2010, when Ericmoore Jossou was attending college in northern Nigeria, the lights would flicker in and out all day, sometimes lasting only for a couple of hours at a time. The frustrating experience reaffirmed Jossou’s…
Breakthrough: AI Produces High-Quality Images 30 Times Faster in Single Step Advancement
In our current age of artificial intelligence, computers can generate their own “art” by way of diffusion models, iteratively adding structure to a noisy initial state until a clear image or video emerges. Diffusion models have…
MIT Releases Financial Aid and Tuition Rates for the 2024-25 Academic Year
MIT’s commitment to undergraduate financial aid will remain strong for the 2024-25 academic year, increasing to an estimated budget of $167.3 million. The increase will more than offset a 3.75 percent percent rise in tuition, to…
Crafting a Chair: MIT Students Discover Valuable Lessons in Design and Construction
Design spans disciplines and schools at MIT as a versatile mode of inquiry. Whether software, furniture, robots, or consumer products, design classes at MIT guide students through the iterative process of ideation, planning, and…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Students Delve into Semiconductor Industry for Career…
“I want to tell you that you don’t have to be just one thing,” said Katie Eckermann ’03, MEng ’04, director of business development at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at a networking event for students considering careers in hard…
Study Finds Significant Molecular Overlaps Between Movement Disorder ALS and Cognitive Disorder FTLD
On the surface, the movement disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and the cognitive disorder frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), which underlies frontotemporal dementia, manifest in…
Advancing Household Robotics: Integrating Common Sense into Engineering Design
From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy the motions that a…
Study Reveals Large Language Models Employ Surprisingly Simple Mechanism for Knowledge Retrieval
Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code…
MIT Engineers Utilize New Experimental Technique to Investigate Mechanisms of Landslides and…
Granular materials, those made up of individual pieces, whether grains of sand or coffee beans or pebbles, are the most abundant form of solid matter on Earth. The way these materials move and react to external forces can determine when…
MIT-Derived Algorithm Enhances Forecasting of Extreme Weather Frequency
To assess a community’s risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution. These models might be used to gauge,…