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A Nobel laureate on the economics of artificial intelli...

For all the talk about artificial intelligence upending the world, its economic ...

Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells

Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and lea...

An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic micr...

The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-...

The man who reinvented the hammer

A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera. These ar...

The poetry of data

Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in hig...

Studying the uninvited guests

Microbes that gobble up or break down environmental toxins can clean up oil spil...

Turning a seaweed crisis into an energy opportunity

In 2019, Legena Henry, SM ’10, and the students in her renewable energy course a...

Michael ’87 and Kathleen Schoen

As an undergraduate, Michael Schoen ’87 found that joining his fraternity, Lambd...

The Download: our relationships with robots, and DOGE’s...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a ...

Are friends electric?

To the best of my knowledge, I am not a robot. And yet, like other humans who sp...

How AI is used to surveil workers

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To...

8,000 pregnant women may die because of US aid cuts to ...

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biote...

The Download: workplace surveillance, and fighting EV f...

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One option for electric vehicle fires? Let them burn.

In the fall of 2024, a trucking company in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, tempora...

Your boss is watching

A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Fr...

The Download: dismantling US science leadership, and re...

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