A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a three-year, $400,000 award from the National Science Foundation to create autonomous snake-like robots that can navigate more naturally and easily…
Using artificial intelligence to improve early breast cancer detection
Model developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce false positives and unnecessary surgeries. Every year 40,000 women die from breast cancer in the U.S. alone. When cancers are found early,…
LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced by Colliding Neutron Stars
For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves—ripples in space and time—in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a…
Now anyone can explore machine learning, no coding required
Now anyone can inch up close to machine learning. It’s teachable in the form of an AI experiment “made with some friends from Google.” You, yes you, can teach a machine (forget coding) using…
MIT’s new flow battery breathes air to cut costs of renewable energy storage
Wind and solar power are increasingly popular sources for renewable energy. But intermittency issues keep them from connecting widely to the U.S. grid: They require energy-storage systems that, at the cheapest, run…