New way to use plastic could change the future of housing, MIT says

Engineers at MIT have recycled "dirty plastic into building products for homes that are lighter, more durable, and sustainable." ...

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
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Using AI, MIT Researchers Discover the First New Antibiotics in Over 60 Years

Using a type of artificial intelligence (AI) known as deep learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers discovered a new class of antibiotics for drug-resistant Staphylococcus ...
EurekAlert!

Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates

Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the ...
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MIT Technology Could Slash Energy Use in Oil Refining by 90%

Tsvetana is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews. Engineers at MIT have developed a new approach to crude oil fractionating ...
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MIT researchers create self-assembling robots using an astonishingly simple scheme

Using M-blocks, MIT researchers have created a robotic technology that features cubes with no external moving parts, yet are fully capable of propelling themselves forward, jumping atop one another, ...
Ars Technica

MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours

MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last ...