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This is your brain on movies
“By using a rich stimulus like a movie, we can drive many regions of the cortex very efficiently. For example,…
Laser imaging peers deeper into living tissue
Metabolic imaging is a valuable noninvasive method for studying living cells with laser light, but it’s been…
Recent books from the MIT community
The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature By Alan Lightman, professor of the…
Turning a seaweed crisis into an energy opportunity
After mixing wastewater from the rum distillery with sargassum, they ran some experiments in the lab. “And the…
Michael ’87 and Kathleen Schoen | MIT Technology Review
As an undergraduate, Michael Schoen ’87 found that joining his fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, and participating…
The Download: Our relationships with robots, and DOGE’s AI plans
Thankfully, the difference between humans and machines in the real world is easy to discern, at least for now.…
How AI is used to surveil workers
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your…
Are friends electric? | MIT Technology Review
This discrepancy between the relative ease of teaching a machine abstract thinking and the difficulty of…
The Download: Workplace surveillance, and fighting EV fires
Working today—whether in an office, a warehouse, or your car—can mean constant electronic surveillance with…
First responders are turning to specialized training to fight EV fires
McGoldrick was encountering fires like this more and more often. The previous year, he says, several rowhouses…