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MIT Hobby Shop rebuilt | MIT Technology Review
Smidt says she loves the lathe but is also very fond of a small tool called a French curve scraper, which she…
Illuminating the life of a cell
“There are many examples in biology where an event triggers a long downstream cascade of events, which then…
Why hydrogen is losing the race to power cleaner cars
Don’t get me wrong: hydrogen vehicles are sold around the world. But they appear to be lurching toward…
Why Chinese apps chose to film super-short soap operas in Southeast Asia
Catch up with China 1. Two influential Chinese bloggers in exile have been sharing uncensored news about…
Is there anything more fascinating than a hidden world?
Technology has long played the spoiler to these worlds in hiding. We have used ships, airplanes, and rockets to…
Journey to the eclipse | MIT Technology Review
Today, NASA operates a fleet of 27 spacecraft to study the sun. NASA even sent a probe to scoop up plasma and…
The first-ever mission to pull a dead rocket out of space has just begun
There are an estimated 500,000 pieces of space junk as small as a centimeter across orbiting Earth, and about…
The Download: tiny TikTok-style soap operas, and how algorithms change us
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1…
How Wi-Fi sensing became usable tech
“Even if your data is encrypted,” says Patwari, “somebody sitting outside of your house could get information…
Bans on deepfakes take us only so far—here’s what we really need
Rules that require all AI-generated content to be watermarked are impossible to enforce, and it’s also highly…