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Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants
Unit two at the Golfech nuclear power plant in southern France shut down at about 11:45 p.m. on June 22 when…
The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI
The next frontier in AI may depend on a new web data infrastructure layer that can enable models to discover…
Stripe, Anthropic and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory…
The project takes inspiration from efforts to fight the covid-19 virus, where Veesler’s group was among those…
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
Sometimes the challenges we face are giant, like tunneling beneath the seafloor. Some exist at the nanoscale,…
This flying solar-powered platform could deliver better internet from the…
But it’s also not so easy to stay there. Sceye’s aircraft, Frandsen says, has to be light enough to stay aloft…
All challenges big and small
Everywhere you looked, there was something to do. I was mostly working with a labor crew to jump on quick…
Heads in the game | MIT Technology Review
The MIT Sports Lab’s origin story begins around 2010, when Anette “Peko” Hosoi, the Pappalardo Professor of…
Super Mario is mathier than you think
Now suppose you have another computer, the Contrarian, and you put the Oracle inside it. When you give the…
A man of many words
After 15 years of answering etymological queries, when the bee was expanded in 2018 Sietsema began serving as a…
Sharing a love for calculus
As our graduates know better than anyone, preparation in calculus is effectively an admissions requirement at a…