MIT Neuroscientists Discover a Tiny Brain Receptor That Could Transform Fragile X Treatment
MIT neuroscientists have made a breakthrough in treating fragile X syndrome by leveraging a novel neurotransmitter signaling ...
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Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
Researchers find large language models process diverse types of data, like different languages, audio inputs, images, etc., similarly to how humans reason about complex problems. Like humans, LLMs ...
Why Some of the Best Colleges Challenge Low Tolerance Grades
Bloomberg/ Colleges happily grade students and evaluate faculty but are often not thrilled by the published report cards they ...
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Six UChicago scientists awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships in 2025
Early-career scholars recognized for pioneering work in statistics, physics, chemistry, astrophysics and computer science ...
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Biggest universities in Cambridge can house around half of their grad students, reports say
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled plans to build dorms that will relieve pressure on the ...
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Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals still seem to test other approaches, study suggests
New MIT research published in Current Biology adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn’t prevent further exploration, even if it reduces performance ...
Three colleges in Massachusetts are new among top research institutions
The schools are the 10th and 11th ones in the state to receive the prestigious R1 designation, which is granted to only 7 ...
Scientists Thought This Would Make AI Worse but It Made It Smarter
It turns out that training an AI in a perfectly controlled environment may help it perform better in chaotic, real-world ...
Federal funding cuts force MIT, Northwestern, and other universities to freeze hiring and reduce spending
Top US universities, including MIT and Northwestern, are facing significant financial strain due to federal funding cuts. With anticipated losses in the millions, institutions are freezing hiring and ...
As Feds Slash Funds, Research Universities Start To Trim Their Budgets
Amid worries about the Trump administration’s plans for research funding and higher education, major research universities ...
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New lab studies how cities can survive extreme climates
The Negev Urban Research Lab ( NUR) in Beersheva, the unofficial capital of the Negev desert, is the first of its kind in Israel. Although NUR is one of 10 similar labs operating worldwide under the ...