A 40-year-old patent inspired a three-sided fastener that lets objects take shape in instants. With an adaptable fastener designed at CSAIL, pitching a tent or adjusting the cast for a broken bone ...

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Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at Rockefeller University in New York at 3 a.m ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

A patent filed in 1985 is being dusted off as a source of inspiration for a new 3D-printed triangular-shaped zipper that seamlessly fastens chairs, tents, robots and purses, making them simpler to ...

Process mining company Celonis has acquired MIT-linked decision intelligence supplier Ikigai Labs to flesh out its offer to eliminate artificial intelligence (AI) “blind spots” from business IT.

A zipper concept patented in the 1980s and then shelved for nearly four decades has been revived by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), who used 3D ...

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For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic structure remained a mystery—until now. Researchers have finally mapped ...

The Detroit Pistons should see more opportunities against the Orlando Magic, which has played at the fifth-fastest pace over the last 15 games. If Jalen Duren doesn’t capitalize on the glass, he’ll ...

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