New cancer treatment may reawaken the immune system
By combining chemotherapy, tumor injury, and immunotherapy, researchers show that the immune system can be re-engaged to destroy tumors in mice.
By combining chemotherapy, tumor injury, and immunotherapy, researchers show that the immune system can be re-engaged to destroy tumors in mice.
When asked to classify odors, artificial neural networks adopt a structure that closely resembles that of the brain’s olfactory circuitry.
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
As climate change brings greater threats to coastal ecosystems, new research can help planners leverage the wave-damping benefits of marsh plants.
While the brain acquires resistance to continuous treatment with mGluR5 inhibitor drugs, lasting effects may still arise if dosing occurs intermittently and during a developmental-critical period.
A new machine-learning system costs less, generates less waste, and can be more innovative than manual discovery methods.
“Robotic” textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes.
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions.
A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training.
Researchers glean a more complete picture of a structure called the nuclear pore complex by studying it directly inside cells.
A deep model was trained on historical crash data, road maps, satellite imagery, and GPS to enable high-resolution crash maps that could lead to safer roads.
The Max Planck Society and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation honor the MIT physicist's work on two-dimensional quantum materials.
Professor Lily Tsai’s new book explains how “retributive justice,” the high-profile sanctioning of some in society, helps authoritarians solidify public support.
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.