The man no one knows who changed Boston
Driving the gold-plated rivet into steel, Charles Hayden, Class of 1890, marked a new phase…
How the Ukraine invasion could accelerate Europe’s clean energy shift
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine spooked energy markets this week,…
The US government is ending the China Initiative. Now what?
The US Justice Department is ending its controversial China Initiative and will pivot to a…
Covid variant tracking
Among all the nose swabs that have ever come up positive for covid-19 over the…
Carbon removal factory
In September, Climeworks flipped the switch on Orca, the largest plant to date that is…
Malaria vaccine
The malaria parasite, a notoriously deadly foe, has evolved countless ways to evade immune detection…
Synthetic data for AI
Last year, researchers at Data Science Nigeria noted that engineers looking to train computer-vision algorithms…
Long-lasting grid battery
For a few seconds on a sunny afternoon last April, renewables broke a record for…
Proof of stake
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin use huge amounts of electricity. In 2021, the Bitcoin network consumed…
AI for protein folding
By the end of 2020, DeepMind, the UK-based artificial-intelligence lab, had already produced many impressive…