“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,” says Irene Cheng, SM ’78, who went on to a successful Wall Street... Read more »

This time last year our AI writers did something reckless. In an industry where nothing stands still, they had a go at predicting the future. Turns out, their predictions were pretty on... Read more »

Since 1971, steel demand has tripled, aluminum demand has increased by six, and cement demand has increased nearly seven times. All this is a growing climate concern, because making, using, and disposing... Read more »

Anne Luther, a digital heritage specialist and one of Digital Benin’s principal investigators, hopes the project will be a model for other communities that want to explore how technology can be used... Read more »

Ultimately, though, assessing our progress in building useful quantum computers comes down to one central factor: whether we can handle the noise. The delicate nature of quantum systems makes them extremely vulnerable... Read more »

3 AI-generated election disinformation will be everywhere  If recent elections are anything to go by, AI-generated election disinformation and deepfakes are going to be a huge problem as a record number of... Read more »

+ The worst technology failures of 2023. The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM’s wayward Cruise robotaxis all made our annual run-down of the worst in tech. Read the full list. +... Read more »

Hagedorn and her collaborators have been able to cryopreserve larvae since 2018, but the process was finicky, and thawing them required sophisticated lasers to heat them at a rate of more than... Read more »

To be on track for net-zero goals, the cement industry would need to add carbon capture facilities to between 33 and 45 existing cement plants by 2030, according to RMI. The first... Read more »