Educational Tutorials – Complexity Research Team (CRT)

Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL

Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI. 19/12/2024

MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.

Zach Winn | MIT News

MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures 17/12/2024

With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.

Adam Zewe | MIT News

New autism research projects represent a broad range of approaches to achieving a shared goal 18/12/2024

At a symposium of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, six speakers described a diversity of recently launched studies aimed at improving understanding of the autistic brain.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Artifacts from a half-century of cancer research 13/12/2024

Ten objects on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries offer uncommon insights into the people and progress of MIT's cancer research community.

Becca Hoff | Koch Institute

Photos: 2024 Nobel winners with MIT ties honored in Stockholm 11/12/2024

Laureates participated in various Nobel Week events, including lectures, a concert, a banquet, and the Nobel ceremony on Dec. 10.

Maia Weinstock | MIT News