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Nanoparticles target lung disease

After one dose of the particles was administered to the lab mice, the mRNA made it into about 40% of the epithelial cells, which form most of the lung lining. Three doses... Read more »

When MIT met Sally

Lauding the Institute community’s “signature ability to foster the very best in fundamental research and harness it to confront society’s hardest problems,” Kornbluth noted that many of those challenges will require new... Read more »

Curiosity unbounded

“In this perilous moment, I believe that curiosity can give us the hope and courage to do what needs to be done. “Importantly, curiosity is also the one and only path to understanding one... Read more »

Build an AI strategy that survives first contact with reality

For one of our clients, one of the world’s leading snack food producers, AI is supporting elements of recipe creation, which is a historically complicated task given the dozens of possible ingredients... Read more »

Creative chemistry: Adapting to the 21st century

The chemicals industry helped build the 20th century, and is urgently adapting to the 21st. Almost all daily goods rely on output from the chemicals sector, from clothes and home insulation to... Read more »

The Download: cutting beer’s carbon emissions, and reclaiming lost wages

What’s happening? Next year, New Belgium Brewing will swap out one of the four natural-gas-powered boilers at its main brewing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, for an electrified version designed to cut... Read more »

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

“To decarbonize industry, we must decarbonize heat,” says Addison Stark, chief executive and cofounder of the startup.  Indeed, heat production from industry may account for around 10% of global carbon dioxide pollution.... Read more »

Next-gen content farms are using AI-generated text to spin up junk websites

People are using AI to quickly spin up junk websites in order to capture some of the programmatic advertising money that’s sloshing around online, according to a new report by NewsGuard, exclusively shared... Read more »

This app is helping workers reclaim millions in lost wages

The tool launched last October with beta testing in New York that focused on the construction industry, a sector identified as particularly rife with abuse, and helped recover $1 million in lost... Read more »

Achieving a sustainable future for AI

More compute leads to greater electricity consumption, and consequent carbon emissions. A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst estimated that the electricity consumed during the training of a... Read more »