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,”…
The algorithms around us
A metronome ticks. A record spins. And as a feel-good pop track plays, a giant…
A Note from the Editor
What are we going to eat? It is the eternal question. We humans have been…
Study: People dislike stories they think were written by AI… even if they were written by humans
Stories written by the latest version of ChatGPT were nearly as good as those written…
Dangers of the metaverse and VR for US youth revealed in new research
The metaverse, a space where the lines between physical and digital realities blur, is rising…
Green Revolution redux
In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural…
GMOs could reboot chestnut trees
Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of rolling green hills stretch off into the distance.…
Introducing: The AI Hype Index
There’s no denying that the AI industry moves fast. Each week brings a bold new…
These companies are creating food out of thin air
Dried cells—it’s what’s for dinner. At least that’s what a new crop of biotech startups,…