A new way to quantify climate change impacts: “Outdoor days”
This measure, developed by MIT researchers, reflects direct effects on people’s quality of life — and reveals significant global disparities.
This measure, developed by MIT researchers, reflects direct effects on people’s quality of life — and reveals significant global disparities.
Extractive industries threaten water, glaciers, and livelihoods, but new research offers hope.
An analysis of the 2011 nuclear accident reveals a need for more preparation, training, and protocols for responding to low-probability accidents.
MIT researchers show that using the right metals could alleviate the corrosion problem in these promising new reactor designs.
Novel method makes tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E-3 faster by simplifying the image-generating process to a single step while maintaining or enhancing image quality.
Results suggest the clouds of Venus could be hospitable for some forms of life.
Researchers also found that a variant of the protein is not as protective against the bacteria and increases susceptibility to the disease.
FeatUp, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, boosts the resolution of any deep network or visual foundation for computer vision systems.
Joining three teams backed by a total of $75 million, MIT researchers will tackle some of cancer’s toughest challenges.
Too much livestock on a given amount of land can lead to carbon losses, but appropriate numbers can actually help sequester the carbon.
A new algorithm reduces travel time by identifying shortcuts a robot could take on the way to its destination.
Employees underestimate salary levels in their own industry, leading them to spend less time exploring the job market.
Applied during endoscopic procedures, GastroShield could help prevent complications such as bleeding and leakage from weakened gastrointestinal tissues.
With the new technique, MIT researchers hope to identify mutations that could be targeted with new cancer therapies.
In field tests, MIT spinoff AgZen demonstrated that its feedback-optimized spraying system could halve the pesticide needs of farms and improve crop yields.