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Single-use plastics are a persistent source of environmental pollution, and the need to house a growing global population puts increasing pr...
Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professo...
How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neu...
Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on E...
Heat generated by electronic devices is usually a problem, but a team led by Giuseppe Romano, a research scientist at MIT’s Institute for So...
A long stretch of humid heat followed by a powerful thunderstorm is a familiar weather pattern in the tropics, but it’s also becoming more c...
Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared ProsperityEdited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the practice of urban studies...
At MIT, AI has become so pervasive that you can almost find your way into it without meaning to. Take Sili Deng, an associate professor...
If you’ve been to an eye doctor and had an image taken of the inside of your eye, chances are good it was done with optical coherence tomogr...
As AI agents increasingly work alongside humans across organizations, companies could be inadvertently opening a new attack surface. Insecur...
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In the past, even with an icebreaker and during peak melt season, getting to the North Pole wasn’t a sure bet. It took favorable winds to cr...
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If you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with the eastern horizon still pin...
Tech workers in China are being instructed by their bosses to train AI agents to replace them—and it’s prompting a wave of soul-searching am...
Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https:/...
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The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series ...
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’...
The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, governm...