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“These highly stable metal-organic frameworks could be useful for applications such as capturing greenhouse gases. Materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a rigid, cage-like structure that lends itself to a variety of applications, from gas storage to drug delivery …
“Researchers create a trajectory-planning system that enables drones working together in the same airspace to always choose a safe path forward. When multiple drones are working together in the same airspace, perhaps spraying pesticide over a field of corn, there …
“New LiGO technique accelerates training of large machine-learning models, reducing the monetary and environmental cost of developing AI applications. It’s no secret that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has some incredible capabilities — for instance, the chatbot can write poetry that resembles …
“Fake seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels could help. Average crop yields in Africa are consistently far below those expected, and one significant reason is the prevalence of …
“A new system enables makers to incorporate sensors into gears and other rotational mechanisms with just one pass in a 3D printer. Integrating sensors into rotational mechanisms could make it possible for engineers to build smart hinges that know when …
“Careful planning of charging station placement could lessen or eliminate the need for new power plants, a new study shows. National and global plans to combat climate change include increasing the electrification of vehicles and the percentage of electricity generated …
“Robotic parts could be assembled into nimble spider bots for exploring lava tubes or heavy-duty elephant bots for transporting solar panels. When astronauts begin to build a permanent base on the moon, as NASA plans to do in the coming …
“Using ultrafast spectroscopy, the chemistry professor studies the energy transfer that occurs at femtosecond timescales inside plant leaves. During photosynthesis, chlorophyll in plants absorbs packets of energy called photons from the sun’s rays. This energy is then transferred to …
“The long-running programming competition encourages skills and friendships that last a lifetime. In a packed room in MIT’s Stata Center, hundreds of digital robots collide across a giant screen projected at the front of the room. A crowd of …
“MIT alumnus-founded FarmWise uses autonomous machines to snip weeds while preserving crops, eliminating the need for herbicides. There’s a lot riding on farmers’ ability to fight weeds, which can strangle crops and destroy yields. To protect crops, farmers have …