Tag: MIT
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New Method Lets AI Locate Personalised Objects Across Scenes
New Training Approach Improves Personalised Object Localization in AI A collaboration between MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab has yielded a practical breakthrough in generative vision-language models (VLMs). The researchers developed a training regime that enables these models to locate personalised objects across different scenes—a capability that has traditionally been challenging. The work aims…
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New method helps AI models locate personalised objects in scenes
Overview Researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have unveiled a training technique that enables generative vision-language models (VLMs) to pinpoint personalised objects across different scenes. Previously, these models excelled at recognizing general object categories like dogs or chairs but struggled to identify a specific instance—such as a particular cat—in varied environments. The…
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Method Teaches Generative AI Models To Locate Personalized Objects
Overview: Teaching AI to Find What Makes Objects Personal Researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are tackling a persistent challenge in vision-language models (VLMs): locating a specific, personalized object within a scene. While such models can recognize general objects like dogs, they often struggle to identify Bowser the French Bulldog among many…
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MIT Engineers Unstick Cells on Demand With Bubble-Driven Detachment in Bioreactors
Revolutionizing cell adhesion in bioreactors and beyond MIT researchers have unveiled a scalable, high-throughput method to detach cells from surfaces on demand using electrochemically generated bubbles. Published in Science Advances, the approach could dramatically reduce downtime and waste across industries that rely on cell cultures, including algae bioreactors for carbon capture, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biofuels, biosensors,…
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Deep Earthquake Aftermath: Why Deeper Crust Changes Persist Long After Shaking
New Insights into Post-Seismic Deformation When an earthquake rattles the ground, it often leaves a visible legacy of cracked roads and toppled buildings. But beneath the surface, the story continues. Geologists are increasingly focused on post-seismic deformation—the way the Earth’s crust gradually adjusts to the sudden redistribution of stress after a quake. Recent work from…
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Deeper Crust Takes Longer to Heal After an Earthquake, MIT Study Finds
Overview: What post-seismic deformation reveals about the crust Earthquakes are not a one-and-done event. The initial shaking is followed by a period of post-seismic deformation, a time when the surrounding rocks adjust to the sudden changes in stress caused by fault rupture. In this phase, areas that didn’t fracture still experience stress shifts and adapt,…
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First Evidence of Proto Earth: 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Materials Unearthed by Geologists
New Clues from the Deep Past: Proto Earth Resurfaces In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Geoscience, researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions report the most compelling evidence yet of proto Earth materials. These remnants, dating back roughly 4.5 billion years, predate the giant collision that shaped the Earth as we know it today. The…
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Proto Earth Revealed: First Evidence of a 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Building Block Remains Discovered
Uncovering the Very Beginning of Earth Geologists and planetary scientists have unearthed what could be the oldest remnants of our planet, offering a rare glimpse into the very seeds of Earth. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, an international team led by researchers from MIT reports a chemical signature that may trace back to…
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Proto Earth Revealed: First Evidence of a 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Building Block
A Glimpse into Earth’s Distant Origins Scientists at MIT and collaborating institutions have uncovered what may be the first direct evidence of proto Earth—the primordial material that predated the giant impact that transformed our planet. Reported in Nature Geosciences, these findings hinge on a subtle imbalance in potassium isotopes detected in some of the oldest…
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MIT Advances Optical Atomic Clocks by Halving Quantum Noise with Global Phase Spectroscopy
Reaching New Heights in Timekeeping Every moment you rely on precise timing—whether checking a phone, making a digital payment, or navigating via GPS—you benefit from the extraordinary accuracy of atomic clocks. Today’s standard clocks track cesium atoms, ticking at about 10 billion times per second. But scientists are pushing toward optical atomic clocks that work…