A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News16 Jul 2026
Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components.
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top 82%ICE Hasn’t Reported Detention or Deportation Data in Months
The Marshall Projectby Lauren Villagran15 Jul 2026
The shooting deaths of two immigrants at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the past week have brought the Trump administration’s violent crackdown into sharp relief once...
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
History of MITby Media Lab15 Jul 2026
Millions of people are now designing their own personalized artificial intelligence companions, yet most have little idea how those creations will actually behave.
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86
History of MITby Anne Trafton | MIT News15 Jul 2026
Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and a Nobel laureate, died July 11 at the age of 86.
3D-printed bridge points the way to greener construction
MIT Newsby Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering15 Jul 2026
Concrete is the most widely used building material on Earth, and producing it is one of the largest single sources of carbon emissions.
Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment
MIT Newsby David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory15 Jul 2026
It’s a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during repetitions of the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is the same.
Watching the Grass Grow: Passing My Millennial Childhood on to Gen Alpha
Narrativelyby Aj Hannah15 Jul 2026
Photos courtesy the author. This story is part of our ongoing series From the Ground Up, a collaboration between Narratively and ScottsMiracle-Gro exploring the lives, memories, and connections...
Ketogenic diets may increase cancer risk in the small intestine
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News15 Jul 2026
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet, also called a ketogenic diet, can help some people lose weight by forcing their bodies to burn fat for fuel instead of sugar.
FIFA’s games betray our trust - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough15 Jul 2026
FIFA’s games betray our trust A lot is written about corruption, but fundamentally it’s about trust and how healthy societies can’t exist without it; and the World Cup has shown what happens when...
The Chilean curse is its abundance of riches - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Phineas Rueckert15 Jul 2026
After kilometers of flat, orange desert, the bus dives down through an increasingly lunar landscape as it reaches San Pedro de Atacama.
This tiny bottle cap traveled 1,500 kilometers. It had 307 hitchhikers aboard.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall15 Jul 2026
Sometimes a big story can be told with a very small object. Take the hazards of plastic pollution in the ocean, and a single bottle cap floating in the Pacific Ocean near Japan.
State: Cuyahoga County Jail Staff Failed to Provide First Aid Training
The Marshall Projectby Mark Puente14 Jul 2026
Correctional staff failed to start CPR the moment they discovered Jennifer Wade lifeless in her Cuyahoga County jail cell last year, state inspectors concluded in a review of the 41-year-old...
Three MIT Press journals lead their fields with Clarivate No. 1 rankings
MIT Newsby Rachel Aldrich | MIT Press14 Jul 2026
In an increasingly crowded, for-profit landscape for scholarly research, the health of a publishing program is often measured by the influence of its publications.
The Garden Where I Finally Found a Family
Narrativelyby Katharine Sarrafi14 Jul 2026
Photos courtesy the author. This story is part of our ongoing series From the Ground Up, a collaboration between Narratively and ScottsMiracle-Gro exploring the lives, memories, and connections...
The surprising upside of asking people to use less energy
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt14 Jul 2026
A variety of climate action strategies improve people’s quality of life, including strategies that require people to shift their behavior to use less energy, according to a new analysis.
Incarcerated People Share the Prison Rules They Live By
The Marshall Projectby Tammy Galarza14 Jul 2026
“Sending Kites” is a monthly column from The Marshall Project that explores challenges faced by people with incarcerated loved ones and by people in jails and prisons. Check our previous columns.
How to Fix Grievances in Federal Prison, According to the Prisoners
The Marshall Projectby Christie Thompson14 Jul 2026
For people held in federal prisons and who have a complaint about conditions, obtaining relief is nearly impossible, a new investigation by The Marshall Project and NPR found.
MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News14 Jul 2026
Tissue engineers are finding ways to grow living organs and tissues from cells, with the aim of replacing diseased and damaged counterparts in the body.
How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks
History of MITby Nicole Estvanik Taylor | Department of Urban Studies and Planning13 Jul 2026
In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them.
How Some Federal Prison Guards Use Fear and Abuse to Stifle Complaints
The Marshall Projectby Joseph Shapiro13 Jul 2026
This much is undisputed: On Nov. 2, 2023, a guard and a prisoner at a federal penitentiary in California got into it over a straw sunhat that the officer had confiscated.