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Recently- Washington Post covered a story of a polyglot(Knowing multiple languages)carpet cleaner with a remarkable brain. Apart from scrubbing rugs for less than $20 an hour,  46-year-old Vaughn Smith has command over 37 languages. He is fluent in 24 of them including English, Spanish, Bulgarian, Czech, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Slovak. He can read and write in

MIT graduate student Fernanda De La Torre, alumna Trang Luu ’18, SM ’20, and senior Syamantak Payra are recipients of the 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.De La Torre, Luu, and Payra are among 30 New Americans selected from a p

Sound healing is an ancient meditative practice that uses different musical implements to create healing vibrations around the body in a meditative state.

MIT students Fernanda De La Torre, Syamantak Payra, and alumna Trang Luu were awarded 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, research professor and Stuart Rice Honorary Chair at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Fran Berman, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, and Tetherless World Professor of Compute...

Meet Lasse Sinikallas, Director Macroeconomics for Fastmarkets.

A new technique could enable a robot to manipulate squishy objects like pizza dough or soft materials like clothing.

As the brain strives to hold information in mind, such as the list of groceries we need to buy on the way home, a new study suggests that the most consistent and reliable representation of that information is not the electrical activity of the indivi

By his count, he knows 45 languages, with at least 24 he speaks well enough to converse

A new two-stage learning system could enable robots to learn abstract ideas about how and when to execute a skill during a task, like using a rolling pin while making pizza.