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How Retractions Hurt Scientists' Credibility
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How Retractions Hurt Scientists' Credibility

Faulty research creates a significant drop in citations of a scientist's prior published work, a new study says. 

Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots

Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...

Growing a Network of Role Models
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Growing a Network of Role Models

MIT senior Marlyse Reeves is building a supportive community of women in aerospace engineering.

How Data Can Help Change the World
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How Data Can Help Change the World

Speakers at last week's IDSS conference explored how data can be brought to bear on global challenges.

Q&a: How Twitter Explains the 2016 Election
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Q&a: How Twitter Explains the 2016 Election

The Electome project compares the content of Twitter conversations with news media coverage of the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.

Why Do Women Leave Engineering?
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Why Do Women Leave Engineering?

A new study proposes that negative group dynamics of teamwork and internships may deter many women in the engineering profession.

We Know Where You Live
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We Know Where You Live

Researchers have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts can disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively...

Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?
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Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?

A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...

New Institute Will Accelerate Innovations in Fibers and Fabrics
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New Institute Will Accelerate Innovations in Fibers and Fabrics

An independent non-profit founded by MIT has won a competition for U.S. federal funding to create an institute to accelerate the development of a high-tech, U.S...

When Slower Is Faster
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When Slower Is Faster

A newly published study claims that communicating vehicles will move more efficiently through intersections without traffic lights than with them. 

Organ-on-a-Chip
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Organ-on-a-Chip

In a step toward patient-specific drug testing, researchers coax human stem cells to form complex tissues.

Driverless Cars? Not So Fast
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Driverless Cars? Not So Fast

David Mindell, an MIT professor and author, argues that self-driving cars could be achieved without full autonomy.

Finding 911 Callers Instantly
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Finding 911 Callers Instantly

A mobile app from startup RapidSOS automatically sends a caller's location and medical data to dispatch centers.

Researchers Develop Basic Computing Elements For Bacteria
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Researchers Develop Basic Computing Elements For Bacteria

Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in common human gut bacterium.

Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research
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Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research

The research, theory, and algorithms behind Team MIT's sixth-place finish in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

MIT Report Details Benefits of Investment in Basic Research
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MIT Report Details Benefits of Investment in Basic Research

A report by a committee of MIT researchers and research administrators examining how funding cutbacks will affect the future of scientific studies in the United...

MIT to Launch Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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MIT to Launch Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

MIT is creating a new institute that will bring together researchers working in the mathematical, behavioral, and empirical sciences to capitalize on their shared...

Teaching Programming to Preschoolers
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Teaching Programming to Preschoolers

Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by affixing stickers to laminated sheets...

Six Keys to Sports Analytics
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics

The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...

Computer Scientist Fights Inefficiencies
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Computer Scientist Fights Inefficiencies

MIT Senior Sheldon Trotman designs computer programs to streamline anything that catches his eye.
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