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Three Spanish MIT physics postdocs receive Botton Foundation fellowships

Recipients Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López receive support for their scientific research.

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Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront

The inaugural SERC Symposium convened experts from multiple disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of society.

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New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery

By applying a language model to protein-drug interactions, researchers can quickly screen large libraries of potential drug compounds.

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Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working

It’s more important than ever for artificial intelligence to estimate how accurately it is explaining data.

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Using data to write songs for progress

Senior Ananya Gurumurthy adds her musical talents to her math and computer science studies to advocate using data for social change.

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Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land

Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.

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Training machines to learn more like humans do

Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.

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Understanding our place in the universe

Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Brian Nord trains machines to explore the cosmos and fights for equity in research.

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Bacterial injection system delivers proteins in mice and human cells

With further development, the programmable system could be used in a range of applications including gene and cancer therapies.

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Mining the right transition metals in a vast chemical space

Computational chemists design better ways of discovering and designing materials for energy applications.