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Sleep Loss Triggers Brain Fluid Waves And Attention Gaps

A figure from the paper illustates a key finding of "compromised compartmentalization": chromatin that was locking genes down in health became more open in Alzheimer's, while chromatin that was open became more locked down.

When Brain Cells Lose Their Grip, Memory Follows

Simple climate prediction models can outperform deep-learning approaches when predicting future temperature changes, but deep learning has potential for estimating more complex variables like rainfall, according to an MIT study.

Old Tools Outshine AI in Climate Forecasting Race

A team of scientists, including physicists at MIT, have detected a near and ultrabright fast radio burst some 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

Brilliant Cosmic Flash Challenges Fast Radio Burst Theories

Graphic illustrating MIT’s new platform for manipulating light on the nanoscale. Thin structures represent patterned chromium sulfide bromide, a layered quantum material with different optical responses (represented by different shades of blue) depending on the application of a magnetic field. The orange and pink structure represents the resulting enhancement of light-matter interactions.

Shape-Shifting Quantum Material Lets Scientists Rewrite Rules of Light

“We consider water to be required for life because that is what’s needed for Earth life. But if we look at a more general definition, we see that what we need is a liquid in which metabolism for life can take place,” says Rachana Agrawal.

Exotic Liquids Could Let Life Thrive on Waterless Planets

Scanning electron micrograph of a human neutrophil ingesting MRSA

AI Designs 36 Million Never-Before-Seen Compounds, Two Show Promise Against Superbugs

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Could High-Altitude Air Help Treat Parkinson’s?

“Meschers” can create multi-dimensional versions of objects that break the laws of physics with convoluted geometries, such as buildings you might see in an M.C. Escher illustration (left) and objects that are shaded in impossible ways (center and right). Credits:Image: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL, using assets from Pixabay and the researchers

This MIT Tool Lets You Play with Impossible Shapes

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How Your Brain Knows the Difference Between a Ball and Water

Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly sensitive camera depicted as a screen. Incoherent light appears as background and implies that the photon has acted as a particle passing only through one slit. Credits:Credit: Courtesy of the researchers

Einstein Was Wrong: MIT’s Laser-Cooled Atoms Settle the Light Debate

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole’s stellar feast. Credits:Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA

Black Holes That Feast and Sleep Found in Dusty Galaxies

A new study finds that people walk faster and linger less in urban settings.

We Walk Faster, Linger Less, and Miss Each Other More

Images produced during the research show the effect of the team’s knockout of the protein Gat3. The left image of an experimental control shows the mouse cortex when the protein was not knocked out, but on the right the knockout virtually eliminated the protein specifically in the visual cortex (dark wedge).

Brain’s Silent Partners: How Astrocytes Keep Visual Neurons in Sync

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