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June 12, 2019

How we tune out distractions

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Anne Trafton

Imagine trying to focus on a friend’s voice at a noisy party, or blocking out the phone conversation of the person sitting next to you on the bus while you try to read.

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June 12, 2019

New gene-editing system precisely inserts large DNA sequences into cellular DNA

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Karen Zusi | Broad Institute

The following press release was issued yesterday by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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June 10, 2019

From one MSRP generation to the next

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Raleigh McElvery | Department of Biology

On June 5, 20 students from the 2019 MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) cohort and eight program alumni had the chance to meet Squire Booker PhD ’94.

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June 6, 2019

Neurons’ “antennae” are unexpectedly active in neural computation

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Most neurons have many branching extensions called dendrites that receive input from thousands of other neurons. Dendrites aren’t just passive information-carriers, however.

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May 31, 2019

Countdown to Commencement 2019

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BCS Communications

Members of the Course 9 Class of 2019 shared their MIT experiences with us and offered up words of advice for incoming students.

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May 29, 2019

Teaching language models grammar really does make them smarter

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Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence

Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa can tell the weather and crack a good joke, but any 8-year-old can carry on a better conversation.

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May 23, 2019

For one graduate student, MIT's nuclear reactor is like a "second home"

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Leda Zimmerman | Nuclear Reactor Lab

Starting in 2008, as she pursued dual undergraduate degrees in physics, and nuclear science and engineering (NSE), and then a doctorate in health sciences and technology, there has been one constant in Agata Wiśniowska's l

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May 22, 2019

This robot helps you lift objects — by looking at your biceps

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Adam Conner-Simons and Rachel Gordon | CSAIL

We humans are very good at collaboration.

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May 16, 2019

How we make complex decisions

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

When making a complex decision, we often break the problem down into a series of smaller decisions.

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May 7, 2019

Why visual stimulation may work against Alzheimer’s

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Several years ago, MIT neuroscientists showed that they could dramatically reduce the amyloid plaques seen in mice with Alzheimer’s disease simply by exposing the animals to light flickering at a specific frequency.

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