Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries ~engineering Article 1326 words, published Oct 8 2024 17 votes
Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world ~tech Article 1044 words 18 votes
New filtration material could remove long-lasting chemicals from water ~enviro pollution.water Article 936 words, published Sep 6 2024 6 votes
MIT's drop in Black students shows fallout from top court ruling ~life education.higher Article 77 words 33 votes
Engineers develop a recipe for zero-emissions fuel: soda cans (aluminium), seawater and caffeine ~science Article 1416 words 34 votes
Economists report on an intervention that helps low-income families beat the poverty trap ~finance economics Article 1321 words 17 votes
MIT astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars ~space astronomy Article 1023 words, published May 6 2024 7 votes
Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales ~science biology.marine Article 1108 words 10 votes
Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion ~science physics Article 1983 words, published Mar 4 2024 10 votes
What Boeing’s door-plug debacle says about the future of aviation safety ~transport Article 1993 words, published Feb 28 2024 13 votes
MIT PhD student hacks Apple Vision Pro days after release, reveals potential jailbreaks and malware threats ~tech security apple.vision pro Article 353 words 19 votes
New system could produce freshwater from saltwater more cheaply than how tap water is made ~enviro water.fresh water.drinking Article 1169 words, published Sep 26 2023 29 votes
Cheap to make, and easily scalable supercapacitor demonstrated by MIT ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1565 words, published Oct 4 2023 27 votes
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water ~enviro water.fresh water.drinking Article 1140 words, published Sep 27 2023 26 votes
Forth: The programming language that writes itself ~comp programming languages programming.concatenative Article 32 703 words 10 votes
No, GPT4 can’t ace MIT - a critical analysis of “Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using Large Language Models” ~tech Article 466 words 17 votes
MIT-founded drone company Aviant launches home delivery service Kyte in Norway ~tech Article 470 words 5 votes
MIT’s vaccine printer: The game-changer in vaccine distribution ~science medicine Article 1128 words, published May 2 2023 3 votes
The hidden toll of military labor on noncitizen soldiers. For immigrants, linking citizenship to using up one’s body and mind exerts an additional pressure to downplay damage and push through pain. ~health.mental Article 3758 words, published Apr 27 2023 1 vote
Apollo guidance computer explained: Everything you need to know ~comp hardware Article 2634 words, published Dec 10 2021 3 votes
They found two new craters on the moon and a new mystery - Searching through imagery from NASA, researchers found the discarded stage of a forgotten rocket crashed in March, but other questions remain ~space Article 1300 words 5 votes
Gender has a history and its more recent than you may realize—The story of how society, ignorant of medical research, made a stigma of something our bodies do naturally: not conform to a sexual binary ~lgbt history transgender Article 2515 words, published Jun 8 2022 3 votes
Solving the challenges of robotic pizza-making ~tech Article 1071 words, published Mar 31 2022 6 votes
MIT is reinstating its SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles ~life education.higher Article 1869 words 10 votes
Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression ~humanities education.higher Article 775 words 4 votes
This MIT engineer built his own bionic leg ~science medicine Video 10:03, published Dec 2 2019 3 votes
MIT predicted in 1972 that society will collapse this century. New research shows we're on schedule ~science sociology Article 21 votes
CliMA collaboration aims to reinvent Earth system modeling ~enviro climate change Article 660 words 6 votes
New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters ~humanities.history Article 1039 words, published Mar 2 2021 4 votes
New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely: The design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's effect on time ~science physics Article 1024 words 13 votes
MIT researchers created a deepfake of Nixon delivering the 'In Event Of Moon Disaster' speech ~tech Article 745 words 8 votes
Harvard, MIT sue US immigration authorities over new rule for foreign students ~news usa Article 905 words 23 votes
Long-lost US military satellite found by amateur radio operator ~space satellites Article 584 words 9 votes
MIT will post free plans online for an emergency ventilator that can be built for $100 ~health Article 1323 words 9 votes
MIT engineers devise the best way to deflect an incoming potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid ~space Article 1264 words 7 votes
Analysis of Voatz mobile voting app by MIT researchers finds elementary security flaws ~tech security Article 1644 words 11 votes
MIT has released the results of the review of the university's interactions with Jeffrey Epstein ~news usa Article 2785 words 6 votes
MIT Media Lab scientist claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, but the computers never worked ~science Link 9 votes