During the original US missions to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s, astronauts relied on radio-frequency systems to communicate, sending grainy, low-quality images and videos to Earth.…
But on the Artemis II Orion mission in April, spacecraft transmitted c…
The livestreams so many people enjoyed were made possible through the …
Based on infrared laser light, which can transmit 10 to 100 times more…
Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues at the MIT Media Lab points to a big problem with this strategy.…
Participants who evaluated paired news headlines and images over the c…
The result reflects an “AI dependency paradox” that has been observed …
“Users get excited about these ‘magical’ LLMs but forget that they’re …
When remotely operated vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that onboard cameras struggle to see through.…
Often, the only thing to do is wait until the dust settles.
But a new system developed by Amy Phung, SM ’23, PhD ’26, and her advi…
In this technique, the vehicle first uses sonar to quickly map its sur…
Vaccines that turn the body’s immune system against tumors have shown promise in clinical trials, and a handful have been FDA approved for certain cancers.…
In many patients, however, these vaccines don’t stimulate enough of a …
Now MIT chemical engineer Daniel Anderson and colleagues at MIT, Harva…
The advance could lead to much more powerful cancer vaccines as well a…
Oral and forehead thermometers may not accurately capture a person’s core body temperature, and the few ingestible temperature sensors on the market are so big they are hard to swallow and risk obstructing the GI tract.…
But MIT engineers created one that can send continuous temperature upd…
To create it, the researchers built a circuit that can fit on a one-sq…
Its frequency varies depending on the temperature of the chip’s surrou…
Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis
Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand.…
She watched big mountains pass by out the window.
She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size re…