A New Computing Platform
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Researchers at MIT make a computing platform.
- A2
Researchers at MIT made a new nanoscale computing platform.
- B1
Researchers at MIT have developed a nanoscale computing platform.
- B2
Researchers at MIT have developed a nanoscale computing platform that uses mechanical motion to process and store information.
- C1
Certain biological systems can process information locally through physical changes without using a central brain.
- C2
In the natural world, certain biological systems demonstrate an extraordinary capacity for decentralised processing.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- nanoscale
- having dimensions measured in nanometres; extremely small
- rely on
- needs something to work or exist
- permanently
- always and forever
- prevent
- stops something from happening
- squeeze
- presses something firmly from opposite sides
- mimic
- copies the way someone or something behaves
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.