MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Dec. 18, 2024 ~8 min

Miracle, or marginal gain?

Industrial policy is said to have sparked huge growth in East Asia. Two MIT economists say the numbers tell a more complex story.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
Dec. 18, 2024 ~8 min


MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems unveils plans for the world’s first fusion power plant

The company has announced that it will build the first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

Zach Winn | MIT News • mit
Dec. 17, 2024 ~6 min

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures

With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Dec. 17, 2024 ~7 min

A new method to detect dehydration in plants

Sensors developed by SMART researchers are capable of detecting pH changes in plant xylem enable farmers to detect drought stress up to 48 hours before visible physical symptoms manifest.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
Dec. 16, 2024 ~7 min

Aurora mapping across North America

Haystack Observatory researchers and citizen scientists team up to map the aurora.

Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory • mit
Dec. 16, 2024 ~6 min

Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy

Researchers at MIT, NYU, and UCLA develop an approach to help evaluate whether large language models like GPT-4 are equitable enough to be clinically viable for mental health support.

Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health • mit
Dec. 16, 2024 ~6 min

New climate chemistry model finds “non-negligible” impacts of potential hydrogen fuel leakage

MIT study confirms the climate impacts of hydrogen, recommends leak prevention be a priority as infrastructure for handling this clean-burning fuel is built.

Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative • mit
Dec. 16, 2024 ~12 min


Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely

The “PRoC3S” method helps an LLM create a viable action plan by testing each step in a simulation. This strategy could eventually aid in-home robots to complete more ambiguous chore requests.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
Dec. 12, 2024 ~6 min

Enabling a circular economy in the built environment

A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders’ motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices.

CK Taylor | Climate and Sustainability Consortium • mit
Dec. 11, 2024 ~9 min

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