Mice “would normally eat ferociously” when given access to food after fasting. “But if you stimulate those cells in the gut, they would feel full.” Together they developed a way to distribute... Read more »
To understand the chances that the US will succeed, MIT Technology Review spoke to Shawn Qu. As the founder and chairman of Canadian Solar, one of the largest and longest-standing solar manufacturing... Read more »
—Daniele Visioni is a climate scientist and assistant professor at Cornell University The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering the climate system is heating up, as the dangers of... Read more »
The growing interest in studying the potential of these tools, particularly through small-scale outdoor experiments, has triggered corresponding calls to shut down the research field, or at least to restrict it more... Read more »
Join us for EmTech Digital at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 22-23, 2024. I’ll be there—join me! Our fantastic speakers include Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, who will... Read more »
To develop Spin-Valence, a novel structural system, Emily Baker created prototypes by making cuts and folds in sheets of paper before shifting to digitally cut steel. By making a series of cuts... Read more »
Nobel Prizes and other scientific honors are nearly routine at MIT, but a Grammy Award is something we don’t see every year. That’s what Miguel Zenón, an assistant professor of music and... Read more »
For millennia, during Finland’s blistering winters, wind drove snow into meters-high snowbanks along Lake Saimaa’s shoreline, offering prime real estate from which seals carved cave-like dens to shelter from the elements and... Read more »
As ice and snow arrive, the teams spring into action, joined by groups run by the charity World Wildlife Fund in southern parts of Lake Saimaa. All of today’s volunteers—including a nurse... Read more »
In the world of brain-computer interfaces, it can seem as if one company sucks up all the oxygen in the room. Last month, Neuralink posted a video to X showing the first... Read more »