Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until it melted, they learned to pull liquid metal from rock, a skill that helped ...

For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not meaningfully reverse later in life. A new wave of research from MIT and ...

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Nandan Nilekani built Aadhaar, India’s vast digital biometric identity system. Now he wants to Aadhaarize the world.

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Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically speeding up how data moves inside the chip. Unlike traditional flat designs, ...

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When Scott Anthony (Dartmouth College, class of 1996) left a 20-year career in high-stakes consulting to join the faculty at his alma mater in July 2022, he thought he was leaving the “intense ...

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