MIT Asia Real Estate Initiative expands its footprint in booming Asian cities
History of MITby Denise Brehm | MIT Center for Real Estate·19 May 2026
Urbanization in the Asia-Pacific region of the world is occurring at an alarmingly rapid pace, with more than 2.2 billion people now living in cities in the region, and an additional 1.2 billion...
The Haystack 37m Telescope: A new era of astrophysical research
History of MITby Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory·19 May 2026
The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964.
Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery
DeepMindby Pushmeet Kohli; Yossi Matias·17 May 2026
Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery For centuries, the scientific method has been the greatest engine of human progress.
Making LLMs faster without sacrificing accuracy
Amazon Science Homepageby Tao Yu; Youngsuk Park·15 May 2026
Large language models (LLMs) keep getting bigger and better. But the cost of running them — generating text, answering questions, powering real-time applications — is scaling up, too.
3Q: Why science is curiosity on a mission
History of MITby MIT News·14 May 2026
This week, MIT launches a new initiative — titled Science Is Curiosity on a Mission — to make the case for the long-horizon, curiosity-driven science that has powered generations of American...
Promptimus: Improving already good LLM prompts with zero manual engineering
Amazon Science Homepageby Zhengyuan Shen; Yunfei Bai; Sullam Jeoung; Shuai Wang·14 May 2026
Large language models (LLMs) have become integral to enterprise applications across industries. Under the hood, customers’ inputs to the models are usually augmented with prompts that encode...
A new unit of measurement to honor an influential MIT alumnus
History of MITby MIT Sea Grant | Department of Mechanical Engineering·12 May 2026
The hallowed history of student pranks (often known as hacks) at MIT includes the annual Baker House Piano Drop and the MIT weather balloon at the Harvard-Yale football game in 1982.
Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research
DeepMindby Co-Scientist team·12 May 2026
Acknowledgements This research project was led by Juraj Gottweis and Vivek Natarajan, as well as Alan Karthikesalingam, Annalisa Pawlosky, and Yunhan Xu, and with key contributions from: Wei-Hung...
For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
History of MITby Adam Zewe | MIT News·12 May 2026
Despite regional variability in climate, electricity sources, congestion, and the wide variation in individual driving patterns, electric vehicles generate less greenhouse gas emissions and do not...
Star Trek Voyager (VOY) Season 7 Reviews
Ex Astris Scientiaby easinfo@gmail.com (EAS)·10 May 2026
Star Trek Voyager (VOY) Season 7 Reviews Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6Season 7 Unimatrix Zero II See VOY season 6 Synopsis Stardate 54129.4: The Borg twins Rebi and Azan leave...
Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News·7 May 2026
When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going to wipe out workers broadly, in the name of greater efficiency.
Navigating uncertainty in Amazon's middle-mile network
Amazon Science Homepageby Ruth Misener; Hana Ku; Georgios Paschos·6 May 2026
Before the "last mile" delivery driver sets off for your home, your Amazon item has moved through the middle-mile network of fulfillment centers and sort centers, which brings products close enough...
How mechanism design theory helps optimize Amazon-vendor collaboration
Amazon Science Homepageby Dirk Bergemann·5 May 2026
When Amazon places a purchase order with a vendor, a deceptively simple question arises: how many units should go to which fulfillment center, and when?
The tech revolution that wasn’t
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News·5 May 2026
In 1960, engineers at India’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) built what they called an “Automatic Calculator,” the country’s first working computer.
Building trust into AI
Amazon Science Homepageby Staff writer·4 May 2026
At Amazon, AI now touches everything from warehouse logistics to customer service chatbots to AWS cloud services used by thousands of enterprises, making it a business-critical technology.
Preserving the privacy of AI training data
Amazon Science Homepageby Parker Newton; Raj Copparapu·29 Apr 2026
Large language models, the highest-profile machine learning (ML) models used today, are trained on huge corpora of public data.
Mapping molecular markers of physical fitness
History of MITby Anne Trafton | MIT News·28 Apr 2026
Patterns of molecular activity in the blood may hold clues not only to how fit someone is, but also to the biological processes that support physical performance.
How catastrophic is your LLM?
Amazon Science Homepageby Qian Hu; Weitong Ruan; Rahul Gupta·27 Apr 2026
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly useful across a variety of domains, the stakes of keeping them safe rise accordingly.
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
History of MITby Adam Zewe | MIT News·27 Apr 2026
Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S.
How the Antigravity 360 Drone Will Change Your Travels
Travel Blog -by Matthew Kepnes·23 Apr 2026
Drones are huge. And, while there’s lots of restrictions around them, a lot of travelers take them on road because they produce some amazing sweeping aerial shots.
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