The Download: introducing the Food issue
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What do jumping spiders find sexy? How DIY tech is offering insights into the animal mind.
In his quest to understand the hermit crab housing market, biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth…
Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
Google DeepMind has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text and is making it available…
Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solve
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The Download: the AI Hype Index, and spotting machine-written text
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“I wanted to save lives”
When Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell ’06 won the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award,…
How MIT’s Rad Lab rescued D-Day
On June 6, 1944, the Allies deposited nearly 160,000 troops on the beaches of Normandy,…
The Renaissance man from Port Gamble Bay
When Anthony Jones ’08 reminisces about his childhood, he thinks of clams. Growing up on…
Harnessing MIT’s collective power
One of the things I’ve come to value deeply about the MIT community is the…
Arvola Chan ’74, SM ’76, EE ’78, PhD ’80
“I spent 10 years at MIT, earning four degrees in electrical engineering and computer science,”…