Beyond Hot Jupiters: TESS Discovers Longest-Orbit Exoplanet Yet
The frosty gas giant was discovered in a system that also hosts a warm Jupiter. Of the over 5,000 planets known to exist beyond our…
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The frosty gas giant was discovered in a system that also hosts a warm Jupiter. Of the over 5,000 planets known to exist beyond our…
The MIT-led Cosmic Explorer project aims to detect gravitational waves from the earliest universe. The search for space-shaking ripples in the universe just got a…
MIT researchers model and map how neurons across the tiny brain of a C. elegans worm encode its behaviors, revealing many new insights about the…
Ultra-small “switch” could be easily scaled. A team of scientists from MIT, along with their colleagues, have developed a simple superconducting device that could transfer…
Visolis, founded by Deepak Dugar, is working to decarbonize the production of everything from rubber to jet fuel. Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels is…
New platform holds the promise to drive progress in the development of senolytic anti-aging compounds and research on longevity. A recent paper published in Nature…
Ocean color changes reflect significant shifts in essential marine ecosystems. The ocean’s color has changed significantly over the last 20 years, and the global trend…
A new study shows that truncated versions of the Tau protein are more likely to form the sticky filaments seen in the brains of people…
MIT researchers develop “FrameDiff,” a computational tool that uses generative AI to craft new protein structures, with the aim of accelerating drug development and improving…
This AI system only needs a small amount of data to predict molecular properties, which could speed up drug discovery and material development. Discovering new…
MIT’s new system analyzes the likelihood that an attacker could thwart a certain security scheme to steal secret information. Researchers have created a system to…
A new technique produces perovskite nanocrystals right where they’re needed, so the exceedingly delicate materials can be integrated into nanoscale devices. Researchers at MIT have…
A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders. A team…
An MIT research team has made a breakthrough in improving the effectiveness of engineered T cells, or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, in treating…
The images shed light on how electrons form superconducting pairs that glide through materials without friction. When your laptop or smartphone heats up, it’s due…
MIT alumnus’ platform taps the wisdom of crowds to label medical data for AI companies. Centaur Labs created an app that experts use to classify…
After the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year in service, astronomers are awash in new observations that illuminate the oldest stars and galaxies. In its…
As Canada’s wildfires continue to be felt downwind, MIT experts weigh in on what to expect in the coming months, with wildfire season underway. Where…