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MIT spinoff AgZen’s new spraying-monitoring system builds on years of research on how droplets strike and stick to plant surfaces. “Our objective is to reduce the number of pesticides sprayed and lighten the financial burden on farms,” Kripa Varanasi says.
Via @MITstudents on X: “File this one under-- You never know what you will see when walking across MIT's campus.”
In the brains of people who speak multiple languages, the same language regions light up when hearing any of those languages. However, those regions are much less active when polyglots process their native language, suggesting something unique about it, scientists report.
Unlike humans, AI does not have peripheral vision. But a new image dataset that simulates it in machine-learning models improved their ability to detect objects in the visual periphery, helping the models see the world more like humans do.
Three alumni graduated on March 5 from NASA astronaut training. Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encouraged MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class.
Via @mitedgertoncenter on Instagram: “Some students travel to warm places during the winter... others trundle off to Detroit to test the aerodynamic capabilities of their solar-powered vehicle at the @ford wind tunnel!”
Before coming to MIT, senior Nicole McGaa thought, “‘Space and medicine are the two things that I really enjoy, I’ll pick one of them eventually.’ But I got to MIT, and I realized by fate that MIT was one of the few places in the world that did space medicine.”