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MIT Researchers Develop a Revolutionary, Reusable Toxic Gas Detector

MIT Researchers Develop a Revolutionary, Reusable Toxic Gas Detector

MIT researchers have combined metal-organic frameworks with polymers to create a low-cost, reusable, and highly sensitive gas detector that could revolutionize toxic gas monitoring in homes and industrial settings.

Ancient Quasars Reveal Clues about Early Black Hole Growth

Ancient Quasars Reveal Clues about Early Black Hole Growth

These black holes are billions of times more massive than the sun, at a time when the universe is still in its infancy.

Beyond the Wavelength: Scientists Achieve Unprecedented Atomic Proximity

Beyond the Wavelength: Scientists Achieve Unprecedented Atomic Proximity

MIT physicists have developed a technique to arrange atoms at distances as small as 50 nanometers, a tenfold improvement over conventional methods, opening doors to a new regime of quantum phenomena.

Ten years of neuroscience at Google yields maps of human brain

Ten years of neuroscience at Google yields maps of human brain

A piece of human brain tissue the size of half a grain of rice requires 1.4 petabytes (1.4 million gigabytes) to encode — including about 16,000 neurons, 32,000 glia, 8,000 blood vessel cells (for a total of ~57,000 cells) and 150 million synapses.

Predicting the unpredictable: New algorithm improves extreme weather forecasts

Predicting the unpredictable: New algorithm improves extreme weather forecasts

MIT researchers develop a method to refine climate models and predict the frequency of extreme weather events with greater accuracy.

Peering into the heart of darkness: AI reconstructs 3D video of black hole flare

Peering into the heart of darkness: AI reconstructs 3D video of black hole flare

Scientists use AI and telescope data to create the first 3D reconstruction of a flare around Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, offering a glimpse into the chaotic environment surrounding these enigmatic objects.

Tuning the entanglement structure in an array of qubits

Tuning the entanglement structure in an array of qubits

MIT researchers have developed a groundbreaking technique to manipulate entanglement in superconducting qubits, offering valuable insights into the fundamental resource of quantum computing.