The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

SICP Video Lectures (1986)

To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers

A new sensor could enable earlier detection of bladder cancer: « Using a catheter coated with carbon nanotubes, researchers can detect biomarkers produced by cancer cells in the bladder

A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline

Researchers “reprogram” materials by quickly rearranging their atoms: « A new method for precisely moving columns of individual atoms within a material could give rise to exotic quantum properties

6.828: Operating System Engineering (2012)

MathNet:30k competition math problems for AI mathematical reasoning benchmarking

SICP actually a good resource?

Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

Self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies: « MIT researchers leveraged a surprise discovery to devise a faster and more precise biomedical imaging technique

Injectable “satellite livers” could offer an alternative to liver transplantation

A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

Data from Greater Boston shows that relaxed density restrictions (upzoning) increase housing supply and reduce per-housing-unit rents and prices.

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

MIT Radiation Laboratory

Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?

Improving cartilage repair through cell therapy: « SMART breakthrough offers a promising pathway toward improved manufacturing of high‑quality cells for regenerative therapies to treat joint diseases

Implantable islet cells could control diabetes without insulin injections: « The cells can survive in the body for at least three months, producing enough insulin to control blood sugar levels…

MIT 15.393 – Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures (2026)

Why solid-state batteries keep short-circuiting

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable

Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996)

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests

A new study suggests aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere

Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf]

A Scheme Shell (1994)

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