Category: 3. Tech

An article in this magazine about the history of the MIT Alumni Association notes that when the association was formed, there were 84 alumni in total. By 1888, the number had increased to an impressive 579. And it grew by orders of magnitude;…

Harnessing the power of qubits is notoriously tricky, though. For example, two of the most common types—superconducting qubits, which are often made of thin aluminum layers, and trapped-ion qubits, which use the energy levels of an ion’s…

Good luck hiding how you feel. Researchers from Penn State University believe they have developed a stretchy, Band-Aid-sized wearable device capable of…

If you’ve heard deep bass, the roar of a jet engine, or rumbling thunder, you may have felt it in your body. Our cells have a variety of ways to sense mechanical forces, including those that can be caused by…

Key findings from the report are as follows: 

• More AI is moving to inference and the edge. As AI technology advances, inference—a model’s ability to make predictions based on its training—can now be run closer to users and not…

This year has been rough for climate technology: Companies have canceled, downsized, or shut down at least 16 large-scale projects worth $8 billion in total in the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report.

That’s far more…

Lee drew inspiration for his renegade baseball avengers from the Sammi Superstars, one of South Korea’s first professional baseball teams, whose journey of perseverance captivated a country stifled by military dictatorship. The series gained a…

What processes could be responsible for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, lacking river deltas as seen on Earth despite the former’s lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane? This is what a recent study…

On a 3,050-acre facility in Stanfield, Arizona—just minutes from the busy metropolis of Phoenix—Nissan built an off-road playground. Here, the…