The race to replace the powerful greenhouse gas that underpins the power grid
Despite their relatively small contributions so far, emissions of the gas are ticking up, and the growth rate has been...
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The Download: monkey names, and smart masks for health monitoring
The news: Do animals have names? It seems so, after new research appears to have discovered that small monkeys called...
A new way to build neural networks could make AI more understandable
The simplification, studied in detail by a group led by researchers at MIT, could make it easier to understand why...
How machine learning is helping us probe the secret names of animals
Some similar research tactics were reported earlier this year by Mickey Pardo, a postdoctoral researcher, now at Cornell University, who...
A new smart mask analyzes your breath to monitor your health
“The biggest challenge has always been collecting real-time samples. This problem has been solved. That's a paradigm shift,” says Rajan...
A prosthetic leg that feels like a real body part
Getting the neural interface hooked up to a prosthetic takes two steps. First is surgery involving the portions of muscle...
Architecting cloud data resilience
For all its competitive advantages, moving to the cloud presents unique challenges for data resilience. In fact, the qualities of...
The Download: protecting tech workers, and Canada’s wildfire emissions
—Stephen McMurtry is a Google Software Engineer and Communications Chair of the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Tangled up in the contest...
Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced more emissions than fossil fuels in most countries
Now a new study reveals how these blazes can create a vicious cycle, contributing to climate change even as climate-fueled...
The Download: introducing: the 125th Anniversary issue
With this issue, we wanted to celebrate our milestone as a publication without dwelling too much on our own past....
The year is 2149 and …
Two and a half decades later, the bloom is off the rose. Paper is nice. Letters are nice—old-fashioned pen and...
African farmers are using private satellite data to improve crop yields
When EOS first launched in 2015, it relied largely on imagery from a combination of satellites, especially the European Union’s...
From the publisher: Commemorating 125 years
As I sit in my air-conditioned home office writing this letter on my laptop, Spotify providing a soundtrack to keep...
A hundred years of curiosity
His love for learning about the world around him was far too strong to be squashed by the official end...
Not just another band from Boston
But he is still busy and engaged. He and his wife, Kim, operate the DTS Charitable Foundation, which he founded...
Transformative spaces
The Met Warehouse will give faculty in SA+P an environment for teaching and research that matches their professional and creative...
In molecules, one chemist sees art
In 2020, when she came to MIT for graduate school, Lee spent a virtual lab rotation with Laura Kiessling ’83,...
This is MIT and yes, we have bananas
President L. Rafael Reif gave a shout-out to the Banana Lounge in May 2022 in his last presidential charge to...
Readying business for the age of AI
AI across industries There is no shortage of AI use cases across sectors. Retailers are tailoring shopping experiences to individual...
Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology
Some felt these things were connected. Wang Zhao, for one, was a reformer who believed that a simpler way to...