How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs
Nonprofits are striving to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling
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California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI
California’s statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence to manage
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IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by
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The Download: an inspiring toy robot arm, and why AM radio matters
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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A worldwide road trip for the Institute’s president
Soon after MIT’s 18th president, Sally Kornbluth, was inaugurated in May 2023, she made it a priority to expand her
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Cheaper buildings, courtesy of mud
One costly and time-consuming step in constructing a concrete building is creating the “formwork,” the wooden mold into which the
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Odd new tricks from a massive black hole
In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which
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How the brain, with sleep, maps space
Scientists have known for decades that certain neurons in the hippocampus are dedicated to remembering specific locations where an animal
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Bug-size robots that fly and flip could pollinate futuristic farms’ crops
Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of
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