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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...

An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic micr...

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

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...

From climate-warming pollutant to useful material

Although it is less abundant than carbon dioxide, methane gas contributes dispro...

Laser imaging peers deeper into living tissue

Metabolic imaging is a valuable noninvasive method for studying living cells wit...

This is your brain on movies

The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of se...

Recent books from the MIT community

Differential PrivacyBy Simson L. Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05 MIT PRESSS, 2025, $18.95...

Michael ’87 and Kathleen Schoen

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

Turning a seaweed crisis into an energy opportunity

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

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...

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

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