The Download: creating “spare” human bodies, and ditching US AI models
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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Recent books from the MIT community
Differential PrivacyBy Simson L. Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05 MIT PRESSS, 2025, $18.95 Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into
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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 constrained by the
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This is your brain on movies
The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of sensory information, including visual and auditory input. Now researchers
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Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells
Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and learn from physical functions such as heart rates
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An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic microbeads
The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-lasting microplastics that threaten the environment.
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The man who reinvented the hammer
A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera. These are just a few of the seemingly
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The poetry of data
Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying in high school English. If anything, they’re more likely
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Studying the uninvited guests
Microbes that gobble up or break down environmental toxins can clean up oil spills, waste sites, and contaminated watersheds. But
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