Babies can tell who has close relationships based on one clue: saliva
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
An all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
MIT engineers are working on a new kind of device that could streamline the process of blood glucose measurement and insulin injection.
When should someone trust an AI assistant’s predictions?
Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.
A new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
SMART breakthrough could help develop technologies that can identify materials according to desired properties for specific applications.
How well do explanation methods for machine-learning models work?
Researchers develop a way to test whether popular methods for understanding machine-learning models are working correctly.
Controlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
Spread out or bead up? A new process enables control over liquid-solid interfaces even with the most unlikely pairs of materials.
“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?”
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
Pricing carbon, valuing people
New research suggests ways to optimize US climate policy design for a just energy transition.
Synthesis too slow? Let this robot do it.
Tiny Tides is an automated fast-flow instrument that can synthesize peptide-nucleic acids in a single shot.
Overcoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion
Study reveals why some attempts to convert the greenhouse gas into fuel have failed, and offers possible solutions.
Courtney Lesoon and Elizabeth Yarina win Fulbright-Hays Scholarships
Prestigious grants will support full-time doctoral research abroad for the MIT architecture and urban planning students.
Tackling hard computational problems
David Gamarnik has developed a new tool, the overlap gap property, for understanding computational problems that appear intractable.
In Down syndrome cells, genome-wide disruptions mimic a senescence-like state
Extra chromosome alters chromosomal conformation and DNA accessibility in neural progenitor cells; study establishes senescence as a potentially targetable mechanism for future treatment.
Method for delivering immune system-stimulating drugs may enhance cancer immunotherapy
The targeted approach eliminated tumors in mice, with minimal side effects.
Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense “glue”
The discovery could offer a route to smaller, faster electronic devices.