CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * "Periodic table of machine learning" could fuel AI discovery MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from different methods to improve existing AI models or come up with new ones. For instance, the researchers used their fram  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A brief history of expansion microscopy Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons they had seen under the microscopes of the time. With today's imaging technologies, scientists can zoom in much further, seeing the tiny synapses through which neurons communicate with one another, and even the molecul  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 24 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * Afraid of Public Speaking? This Club Can Help BU's Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences Toastmasters chapter helps students become more confident and articulate in front of a crowd By Amy Laskowski Roughly one-third of American adults say they fear public speaking more than insects, needles--even murder. For Sarah Rashed, standing in front of a crowd wasn't something she hated, but wasn't some  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 24 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * POV: There Are Ways to Make Life Easier for Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Caregivers We need better dementia care coordination programs By Katherine O'Malley When Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife were found deceased in their New Mexico home in February, questions swirled about the mysterious nature of their passing. What we would later learn about their final days--particularly   more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, April 24 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * Future-Ready Planning: Key Takeaways from APA's National Planning Conference The American Planning Association's National Planning Conference (NPC) 2025 brought together planning professionals and clients from across the nation, providing an excellent platform fo  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 [Category: BizEnergy] -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, posted the following news release: * * * GE Vernova reports first quarter 2025 financial results CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 23, 2025) - GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV), a unique industry leader enabling customers to accelerate the energy transition, today reported financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2025. "We delivered strong results in the first quarter and our businesses continued to  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 23 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Healey Nominates Judge Charles W. Groce, III and Attorney Jeffrey Trapan to the Superior Court Boston -- Governor Maura Healey today nominated Judge Charles W. Groce, III and Jeffrey Trapani to serve as Associate Justices of the Superior Court. The nominees, who both live in Western Massachusetts, will now be considered by the Governor's Council for confirmation. "Both of  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT D-Lab spinout provides emergency transportation during childbirth Amama has lived in a rural region of northern Ghana all her life. In 2022, she went into labor with her first child. Women in the region traditionally give birth at home with the help of a local birthing attendant, but Amama experienced last-minute complications, and the decision was made to go to a hospital. Unf  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT engineers print synthetic "metamaterials" that are both strong and stretchy In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been "stronger is better." Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material exceptional properties. A huge focus has been in designing metamaterials that are stronger and stiffer than their conventio  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * New electronic "skin" could enable lightweight night-vision glasses MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin "skins" of electronic material. The method could pave the way for new classes of electronic devices, such as ultrathin wearable sensors, flexible transistors and computing elements, and highly sensitive and compact imaging devices. As a demonstra  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * New model predicts a chemical reaction's point of no return When chemists design new chemical reactions, one useful piece of information involves the reaction's transition state -- the point of no return from which a reaction must proceed. This information allows chemists to try to produce the right conditions that will allow the desired reaction to occur. However, current method  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Wearable device tracks individual cells in the bloodstream in real time Researchers at MIT have developed a noninvasive medical monitoring device powerful enough to detect single cells within blood vessels, yet small enough to wear like a wristwatch. One important aspect of this wearable device is that it can enable continuous monitoring of circulating cells in the human body. Th  more