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Seeds of life among the stars: MIT scientists find complex carbon molecules in a distant cloud, pointing to clues to Earth’s beginnings!
This discovery supports the idea that life's building blocks were present early in the Solar System…
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An MIT professor devised a 'Fortress Ukraine' plan in 1994 that proved remarkably right about the Russian invasion
Prof. Barry Posen anticipated Ukraine's challenges against a Russian attack 30 years ago, and offer…
Michael Peck
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A longevity researcher is facing backlash for claiming to 'reverse aging.' Scientists say there's no consensus on what it means.
Dr. David Sinclair is at the center of a scientific debate on what it means to reverse aging, the W…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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MIT researchers have created a solar-powered desalination device that can make seawater drinkable for less than the cost of US tap water
The process, called desalination, could be key to solving global water scarcity, one expert told In…
Katie Hawkinson
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Humans could become 'part AI' to keep up with superintelligent machines, OpenAI's chief scientist says
An OpenAI cofounder said that the rise of superintelligent AI in the future could cause people to m…
Tom Carter
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Earth's deep blue oceans are fading and changing color — and scientists aren't sure why
More than 56% of Earth's oceans have changed color. It's not clear exactly what's driving this, tho…
Marianne Guenot
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We didn't think ChatGPT was very good when we released it, OpenAI's chief scientist says
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's cofounder and chief scientist, said he was initially unimpressed by the ch…
Tom Carter
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The Black scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program that inspired the movie 'Oppenheimer'
At least 19 Black scientists and technicians worked on the creation of US nuclear bombs, but some p…
Yoonji Han
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Large AI models can now create smaller AI tools without humans and train them like a 'big brother,' scientists say
"This is the first step in the path to show that AI models can build AI models," Yan Sun, CEO of th…
Polly Thompson
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How bricks, a screwdriver, and a 'demon core' of radioactive material killed 2 Manhattan Project scientists
WWII-era experiments on a hunk of plutonium known as the "demon core" left two Manhattan Project ph…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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MIT scientists find a way to protect lungs of Coronavirus patients from ‘cytokine storms’
Just because humans don’t have natural immunity against Coronavirus doesn’t mean that the body does…
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Scientists are modifying catfish with alligator DNA to create hybrids for human consumption
Although the project is still in its early stages, the scientists hope to bring the catfish-alligat…
Hannah Getahun
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This vitamin C serum that was developed by MIT scientists makes my skin glow — and it's back in stock after selling out multiple times
This $28 vitamin C serum made by MIT grads contains most of the same ingredients as SkinCeuticals' …
Mara Leighton
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Ancient Roman concrete was incredibly strong — scientists may have just figured out why
How ancient Roman concrete — used to build famous sites like the Pantheon — has survived over the m…
Marianne Guenot
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Federal prosecutors are dropping their case against an MIT professor accused of hiding his connections with China
MIT professor Gang Chen was accused of withholding information on his affiliations with Chinese ins…
Rebecca Cohen
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Scientists capture first direct image of a supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion times the size of the sun, spewing out jets of plasma
Astronomers hope the discovery will help us understand exactly how these jets are created — s…
Marianne Guenot
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Harvard and MIT researchers created a face mask that tests your breath for COVID-19
A small sensor that clips inside of a face mask could tell you if you have COVID-19 in just 90 minu…
Andrea Michelson
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Scientists find more evidence of possible life on Venus
In this study, scientists created a set of chemical processes to show that the presence of ammon…
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An MIT professor put a crib in his lab for a graduate student who needed help with childcare
Troy Littleton tweeted about the crib he put in his lab for his grad student Karen Cunningham. The …