Avoiding shortcut solutions in artificial intelligence
A new method forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning a task, which leads to more reliable predictions.
A new method forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning a task, which leads to more reliable predictions.
A National Science Foundation-funded team will use artificial intelligence to speed up discoveries in physics, astronomy, and neuroscience.
MIT researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal; could improve qubits in quantum computers.
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in the brain.
Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes.
Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the young as a herd, scientists say.
As climate change brings greater threats to coastal ecosystems, new research can help planners leverage the wave-damping benefits of marsh plants.
The cosmic boundary, perhaps caused by a young Jupiter or an emerging wind, likely shaped the composition of infant planets.
Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.
With a new National Science Foundation grant, Justin Reich and collaborators will apply information literacy research to communities outside the formal education system.
This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago.
MIT Haystack Observatory will be part of the new radio spectrum management and coordination center.
Reversible system can flip the magnetic orientation of particles with a small voltage; could lead to faster data storage and smaller sensors.
Economists find companies’ adoption of robots is partly due to shortages in middle-aged labor.