Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a...
AI risks turning organizations into self-serving organisms if humans removed
With human bias removed, organizations looking to improve performance by harnessing digital technology can expect changes to how information is scrutinized. The proliferation of digital...
A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets
Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers' best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is...
Scientists tackle difficult-to-recycle thermoset polymers
A team of UK scientists has got a step closer to making several different types of plastic much easier to recycle, using a method that...
Meet ‘Coscientist,’ your AI lab partner
In less time than it will take you to read this article, an artificial intelligence-driven system was able to autonomously learn about certain Nobel Prize-winning...
New brain-like transistor mimics human intelligence
Taking inspiration from the human brain, researchers have developed a new synaptic transistor capable of higher-level thinking. Designed by researchers at Northwestern University, Boston College...
Cosmic lights in the forest
Like a celestial beacon, distant quasars make the brightest light in the universe. They emit more light than our entire Milky Way galaxy. The light...
Millions of mysterious pits in the ocean decoded
The North Sea seafloor is dotted with thousands of crater-like depressions in the sediment known as pockmarks. There are probably millions of them around the...
Supernova encore: Second lensed supernova in a distant galaxy
In November 2023, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed a massive cluster of galaxies named MACS J0138.0-2155. Through an effect called gravitational lensing, first predicted...
NASA’s Hubble watches ‘spoke season’ on Saturn
This photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from...