科技情报局Published at 2025-10-23 13:44Redefining data engineering in the age of AI
As organizations weave AI into more of their operations, senior executives are realizing data engineers hold a central role in bringing these initiatives to life. After all, AI only delivers when you have large amounts o...- 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-23 12:44
The Download: aluminium’s potential as a zero-carbon fuel, and what’s next for energy storage
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup is about to conduct the biggest real-world test of aluminum as a z... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-23 10:44
What a massive thermal battery means for energy storage
Rondo Energy just turned what it says is the world’s largest thermal battery, an energy storage system that can take in electricity and provide a consistent source of heat. The company announced last week that its first ... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-23 09:44
This startup is about to conduct the biggest real-world test of aluminum as a zero-carbon fuel
The crushed-up soda can disappears in a cloud of steam and—though it’s not visible—hydrogen gas. “I can just keep this reaction going by adding more water,” says Peter Godart, squirting some into the steaming beaker. “Th... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-22 12:44
Introducing: the body issue
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the body issue We’re thrilled to share the latest edition of MIT T... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-22 10:44
Job titles of the future: AI embryologist
Embryologists are the scientists behind the scenes of in vitro fertilization who oversee the development and selection of embryos, prepare them for transfer, and maintain the lab environment. They’ve been a critical part... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-22 10:44
Dispatch: Partying at one of Africa’s largest AI gatherings
It’s late August in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, and people are filling a large hall at one of Africa’s biggest gatherings of minds in AI and machine learning. The room is draped in white curtains, and a giant screen blinks... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-22 10:44
3 Things Stephanie Arnett is into right now
Dungeon Crawler Carl , by Matt Dinniman This science fiction book series confronted me with existential questions like “Are we alone in the universe?” and “Do I actually like LitRPG??” (LitRPG — which stands for “literar... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-22 10:44
Inside the archives of the NASA Ames Research Center
At the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, surrounded by the tech giants Google, Apple, and Microsoft, sits the historic NASA Ames Research Center . Its rich history includes a grab bag of fascinating scientific research ... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 21:44
Engineering better care
Every Monday, more than a hundred members of Giovanni Traverso’s Laboratory for Translational Engineering (L4TE) fill a large classroom at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for their weekly lab meeting. With a social hour, fo... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 21:44
How Millie Dresselhaus paid it forward
Institute Professor Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus forever altered our understanding of matter—the physical stuff of the universe that has mass and takes up space. Over 57 years at MIT, Dresselhaus also played a significan... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 21:44
Infinite folds
When Madonna Yoder ’17 was eight years old, she learned how to fold a square piece of paper over and over and over again. After about 16 folds, she held a bird in her hands. The first time she pulled the tail of a flappi... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 21:44
25 years of research in space
On November 2, 2000, NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd, OCE ’78, SM ’78, and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko made history as their Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. The event ... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 12:44
The Download: embryo ethics, and reducing chatbot risks
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna Instead of relying on the same old... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 10:44
New noninvasive endometriosis tests are on the rise
Shantana Hazel often thought her insides might fall out during menstruation. It took 14 years of stabbing pain before she ultimately received a diagnosis of endometriosis, an inflammatory disease where tissue similar to ... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 09:44
The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna
When the Palestinian stem-cell scientist Jacob Hanna was stopped while entering the US last May, airport customs agents took him aside and held him for hours in “secondary,” a back office where you don’t have your passpo... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-21 09:44
Why AI should be able to “hang up” on you
Chatbots today are everything machines. If it can be put into words—relationship advice, work documents, code—AI will produce it, however imperfectly. But the one thing that almost no chatbot will ever do is stop talking... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-20 16:44
Fold your own tessellation
Download the pattern for Dancing Ribbons here . Yoder recommends printing the pattern on paper in between normal printer paper and cardstock in weight, making sure it folds in straight lines (not too thick), folds back a... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-20 12:44
The Download: a promising retina implant, and how climate change affects flowers
This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle The news... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-20 12:44
This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture—has leapfrogged its rival after acquiring a vision implant that’s in advanced testing, for a fire-sale ...