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Rethinking how our brains use categories to make sense of the world
about 9 hours ago
In the new review article, “Categorization is Baked into the Brain,” cognitive...
Photonics advance could enable compact, high-performance lidar sensors
about 15 hours ago
Lidar systems use pulses of infrared light to measure distance and map...
Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages
about 20 hours ago
When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may...
Method for stress-testing cloud computing algorithms helps avoid network failures
2 days ago
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a more user-friendly and efficient...
Astronomers pin down the origins of a planetary odd couple
3 days ago
Across the Milky Way galaxy, a planetary odd couple is circling a...
The tech revolution that wasn’t
3 days ago
In 1960, engineers at India’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) built...
Rett syndrome study highlights potential for personalized treatments
3 days ago
Although many studies approach the developmental disorder Rett syndrome as a single...
Powering 160,000 hours of discovery at MIT.nano
3 days ago
Each year, more than 1,500 researchers rely on over 200 tools and...
It took 40 years for technology to catch up to this zipper design
3 days ago
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American...
How chromatin movement helps control gene expression
4 days ago
Gene expression is controlled, in part, by the interactions between genes and...
The hidden structure behind a widely used class of materials
7 days ago
Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like...
Study: Gene circuits reshape DNA folding and affect how genes are expressed
7 days ago
When a gene is turned on in a cell, it creates a...