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New Concrete That Stores Electricity Could Turn Whole Homes Into Batteries
Futurism via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA team of MIT researchers has come up with a new way to store energy inside concrete, a tantalizing...
These 12 colleges have produced more billionaires than any other
Business Insider· 4 hours agoThese colleges and universities have produced more billionaires than any other, according to a list...
Boston Tech Leaders: Brian Halligan, Propeller Ventures - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 6 hours agoAfter cofounding and leading the state’s biggest software firm for 15 years, Brian Halligan stepped...
Researchers use large language models to help robots navigate
Science Daily· 20 hours agoTo overcome these challenges, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab devised a navigation method that converts visual representations into pieces ...
Everything you need to know about Finch, the latest programming language developed by MIT
TNW· 4 days agoIn May, a research team from MIT announced a new programming language. Finch, its creators say, is...
Neuroscientists find that just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoNew research from MIT has found that such mental maps are also created and activated when you merely...
AI Decodes Sperm Whale Language, Revealing a Complex System of Communication
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoResearchers from MIT’s CSAIL and Project CETI use machine learning to decode the “sperm whale...
MIT researchers use carbon black to create supercapacitor concrete – Rubber World – The Technical...
Rubber World· 3 days agoThe two materials, the researchers found, can be combined with water to make a supercapacitor — an alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, ...
‘The bravest person I ever knew’: Transgender computing pioneer Lynn Conway dies at 86
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoShe retired from active teaching in 1998, but continued her love of adventure sports such as rock...
"Jurassic Park" theme preserved in DNA in "amber"
Newsweek· 13 hours agoScientists may be one step closer to creating digital data storage out of DNA after developing a glassy, amber-like material to preserve the molecule....