Assessing a community’s risk of extreme weather events – such as catastrophic storms and catastrophic flooding – is a key task for policymakers who are trying to prepare for the potential impacts of global climate change. Despite major advancements in technology and modeling techniques, however, these forecasts leave a lot to be desired. Now, a…
Researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a digital simulator that seeks to improve photolithography's precision, often used in computer chips and optical devices manufacture. The process uses light to etch intricate designs onto surfaces, but minor discrepancies often cause devices' final performance to deviate from designers' initial intentions. The…
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective, a partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) School of Engineering and Pillar VC, has named six fellows for the spring 2024 semester. Each fellow is a graduate student in their final year of a master's or PhD program who will conduct research in the fields of AI, machine learning,…
Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Duke University have developed a method for identifying the protein transporters different drugs use to traverse the digestive tract. This could help to avoid dangerous drug interactions and enhance patient treatment as two medications that use the same transporter may interact negatively if prescribed together. The method…