Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally altering the landscape of scientific discovery, marking a significant step towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI). A new study from ...

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Forward-looking: MIT scientists seeking breakthroughs in nuclear materials have made an unexpected discovery with major implications for microelectronics: they found they could use an X-ray beam not ...

Forward-looking: A new chapter in materials science is unfolding at MIT, where researchers have developed a fully autonomous robotic system designed to accelerate the search for advanced ...

A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials' mechanical strength, heat transfer, and ...