Imagine a winter coat so light and airy it feels like wearing a cloud, yet keeps you as snug as a polar bear in a blizzard. Chinese researchers have pulled off that…
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MIT’s top research stories of 2023
A cheaper water desalination device, a wearable ultrasound scanner, and the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet were some of MIT News’ most popular articles. MIT News has released the list of MIT’s…
MIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart’s right chamber
MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts. The robo-ventricle combines real heart tissue with synthetic, balloon-like artificial…
Google unveils Gemini, a MultiModal AI that outperforms GPT-4
Google has unveiled its next-generation AI model named Gemini which is built from the ground up for multimodality — reasoning seamlessly across text, images, video, audio, and code. Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU…
World Record Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity Doubles to 22.9 Petabits per Second
Researchers from Japan and Netherlands demonstrated a record-breaking data-rate of 22.9 petabits per second using only a single optical fiber, which was more than double our previous world record of 10.66 petabits…