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I’m a beaver. You’re a beaver. We are beavers all.

As efficient creators and stewards of wetlands, beavers provide a hospitable ecosystem for dozens of other creatures, from insects, frogs, and turtles to owls, otters, great blue herons, and even moose and... Read more »

Divine economics

The road to economics Thompkins’s experiences as a youth advocate set her up to dream big about what she might accomplish on behalf of the disabled community. Her hope as a teenager... Read more »

Puzzle corner

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

The Download: hope for new long covid treatments, and the future of chiplets

In response, manufacturers are turning to smaller, more modular “chiplets” that are designed for specific functions and can be linked together to build a system. But whether chiplets can help the industry... Read more »

The Download: heat pumps, and getting drugs to the brain

1 Microsoft briefly usurped Apple as the world’s most valuable companyThe AI boom has investors laughing all the way to the bank. (FT $)+ Microsoft is growing more quickly than its old... Read more »

Capitalizing on machine learning with collaborative, structured enterprise tooling teams

Having centralized enterprise MLOps and engineering teams ask these questions can free up the business to solve customer problems, and to consider how technology can continue to support the evolution of new... Read more »

The Download: how to fight pandemics, and a top scientist turned-advisor

2 Google has launched a new anti-terrorism content toolAltitude gives smaller platforms the ability to track, detect and remove terror content. (Wired $)+ Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet... Read more »

How scientists are being squeezed to take sides in the conflict between Israel and Palestine

On October 7, Hamas—the organization in command of the Gaza Strip, and which is designated a terrorist group by the US—launched a surprise attack into Israel, during which it killed more than... Read more »

The race to destroy PFAS, the forever chemicals 

There’s good reason for this. Not only are PFAS everywhere around us; they’re also in us. Humans can’t break down PFAS, and our bodies struggle to clear them from our systems. Studies... Read more »

Low-power underwater communication

To make the system more efficient, the researchers used a 70-year-old technology called a Van Atta array, in which symmetric pairs of antennas are connected so that energy is reflected back in... Read more »