NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Is About to Tell Us a Lot More About the Universe - CNET
CNETby Joe Hindy11 Jun 2026
After nearly a decade in development, NASA’s much-anticipated big telescope officially launched into space on Sunday.
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top 25%NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Is About to Start Its Cosmic Survey - CNET
CNETby Joe Hindy11 Jun 2026
After nearly a decade in development, NASA’s next big telescope is almost ready to travel into space. The agency has set Sunday as the launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Graviton5’s improved design increases speed and energy efficiency — beyond Moore’s law
Amazon Science Homepageby Ali Saidi10 Jun 2026
AWS Graviton processors have improved steadily across generations, with each iteration delivering advances in computational performance, price performance, energy efficiency, and memory capacity.
EC2’s formally verified “isolation engine” provides mathematical assurance of virtual-machine isolation
Amazon Science Homepageby Dominic Mulligan; Nathan Chong10 Jun 2026
Today we announced the general availability of the new M9g and M9gd instances of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’s) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the first instance types powered by Graviton5, the latest...
Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable
History of MITby Zach Winn | MIT News10 Jun 2026
The rise of artificial intelligence is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion. Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in...
Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat - bioGraphic
bioGraphicby bioGraphic9 Jun 2026
In the long quest to understand what life was like for the saber-toothed cats, bison, and mammoths that roamed North America’s dry tundra during the last Ice Age, scientists have hit on a potent...
Real-world grounding in agentic AI
Amazon Science Homepageby Rose Yu8 Jun 2026
The year 2026 marks a definitive shift in the AI landscape: we have moved from models that simply know to agents that do.
Bridging intent and execution in agentic systems
Amazon Science Homepageby Gaurav Gupta; Vatshank Chaturvedi8 Jun 2026
AI agent performance is not just a modeling problem; it is fundamentally a systems problem. A modern agent combines an LLM with a harness, software that mediates the LLM’s interaction with tools...
The crucial human component in computing and AI
History of MITby Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing5 Jun 2026
On April 30, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) initiative hosted a full-day research symposium examining how artificial intelligence...
PATH to boost AI training and career opportunities for industry-aligned jobs
History of MITby Media Lab4 Jun 2026
MIT, in collaboration with Georgia State University and a growing network of educational institutions, has announced expanded work under PATH (Pathways for AI Training and Hiring) — a multiyear...
Focus is Motivation - Scott H Young
Scott H Youngby Scott Young4 Jun 2026
Learning multiplies the distinctions we can make. We learn to see differences between things we had previously been lumping together.
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smitten kitchenby deb3 Jun 2026
One of my most exasperating traits — or, perhaps one that makes me ideally suited for this space I invented, coincidentally, to suit my collection of traits — is that I have a terrific amount of...
Ground truth is a process, not a dataset
Amazon Science Homepageby Venkatesh Saligrama3 Jun 2026
Today, the key challenge in AI isn’t only how to build better models; it’s how to build evaluation systems that can keep up.
Pepsi: Caleb Bradham’s Unfinished Invention | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine30 May 2026
He was not supposed to be remembered this way. Caleb Bradham was a pharmacist, trained for local steadiness rather than worldwide success, a man expected to move plainly through small-town commerce...
How flat is replacing fat in AWS data center networks
Amazon Science Homepageby Giacomo Bernardi; Ratul Mahajan; Seshadhri Comandur28 May 2026
Routing in today’s data centers is usually governed by a data structure called a “fat tree”, which is similar to a corporate organizational chart, with nodes in each layer connecting to multiple...
Fall 2025 Amazon Research Awards recipients announced
Amazon Science Homepageby Amazon Research Awards team27 May 2026
Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines.
Diverse reasoning traces teach LLMs to make better decisions
Amazon Science Homepageby Sheng Jia; Xiao Wang; Shiva Kasiviswanathan26 May 2026
Large language models (LLMs) are pretrained on huge volumes of unlabeled data, but afterward, they’re typically post-trained on specific tasks such as instruction following, avoiding harmful...
MIT Asia Real Estate Initiative expands its footprint in booming Asian cities
History of MITby Denise Brehm | MIT Center for Real Estate19 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 Observatory19 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 Matias17 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.