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New robotic system could lend a hand with warehouse sorting and other picking or clearing tasks.
Did humans speak through cave art? New paper links ancient drawings and language’s origins.
New finding suggests differences in how humans and bacteria control production of DNA’s building blocks.
Serious medical problems reduce earnings, hurt employment, and increase debt.
Novel technology could allow researchers to develop and test new antimalaria drugs.
The way streets and buildings are arranged makes a big difference in how heat builds up, study shows.
Research published in Science demonstrates the ability of photons to bind together in a way previously thought impossible – creating a new form of light. “The photon dance happens in a lab at MIT where the physicists run table-top experiments with lasers,” writes Marissa Fessenden for Smithsonian. “Photons bound together in this way can carry information – a quality that is useful for quantum computing.”
According to a new paper from Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa, “cave drawings may show evidence of the development of spoken human language,” writes Laney Ruckstuhl for The Boston Globe. “There’s this idea that language doesn’t fossilize,” Miyagawa said. “And it’s true, but maybe in these artifacts [cave drawings], we can see some of the beginnings of homo sapiens as symbolic beings.”
Research by Associate Prof. Jared Curhan in Sloan found that back-to-back negotiations can be challenging, particularly if a person has recently been successful. “Hubristic pride may give you a false sense of confidence, and you may underestimate your next counterpart,” Curhan tells Aisha Al-Muslim at The Wall Street Journal. “That may make you not prepare adequately for the next negotiation.”
MIT researchers have designed a new chip to enhance the functionality of neural networks while simultaneously reducing the consumption of power, writes Darrell Etherington of TechCrunch. “The basic concept involves simplifying the chip design so that shuttling of data between different processors on the same chip is taken out of the equation,” he explains.
Photographer, poet, and PhD student in biological engineering Corban Swain pursues diverse interests with a keen eye.
Polina Anikeeva explores ways to make neural probes that are compatible with delicate biological tissues.
New members have made advances in the development of plasticity, novel genetic evolution methods, systems modeling, and clean energy.
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