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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Traffic Deaths Remain a Leading Preventable Cause of Death
MIT Technology Review reports traffic crashes kill more than a million people worldwide each year, with proven fixes like lower speed limits slowed by funding and political will.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Progress, Limits in PFAS Cleanup Effort
MIT Technology Review reports scientists are advancing ways to trap and destroy PFAS "forever chemicals," but warns cleanup will fail unless new contamination is curbed.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports on Drugs Designed to Mimic Exercise Benefits
MIT Technology Review is reporting that researchers are working to develop medicines that mimic some benefits of exercise for people facing frailty, disability or chronic illness, though the work faces major hurdles.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports NASA Plans Nuclear-Powered Mars Spacecraft by 2028
MIT Technology Review reports NASA aims to launch Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the first nuclear-reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft, on an uncrewed Mars mission by late 2028, arriving in 2029.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Introduces New Print Editor, Previews "Impossible Ideas" Issue
MIT Technology Review's new print magazine editor introduces herself and outlines an issue devoted to "impossible ideas," from synthetic blood to decoding animal speech, in a letter to readers.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Highlights Alumnus's Push to Extract Rare Earth Metals from Mining Waste
MIT Technology Review profiles Tomás Villalón Jr. '14, cofounder of Phoenix Tailings, which uses an electrochemical process to pull rare earth metals from mining waste without toxins.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Profiles Alumna Building National Brain Injury Support Network
MIT Technology Review reports that alumna Alissa Totman, now a brain injury physician, founded Synapse, a nonprofit with chapters at 28 universities supporting people with brain injuries.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Profiles Astronomer Megan Donahue and Highlights AI Coverage
MIT Technology Review profiles Michigan State astronomer Megan Donahue, whose galaxy cluster research began at MIT, and spotlights stories questioning LLM reasoning and AI hype.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Recalls a TA's Encouragement, and Weighs AI's Limits
MIT Technology Review recounts an alumnus's first failing exam at MIT and a teaching assistant's encouragement, while its most-read stories question AI reasoning, AGI hype, and brain-scan reconstruction.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Profiles Alumnus Leading Pickleball Startup
MIT Technology Review reports that Stanley Anderson, an MIT alumnus raised in Chicago, now leads Costa Pickleball, a Las Vegas startup developing quieter paddles and decorative designs.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports on AI-Robotic System Designed to Extend Stroke Rehabilitation Care
MIT Technology Review reports researchers developed a robotic rehabilitation system using generative AI and real-time force feedback to assist stroke patients, aiming to extend therapists' reach amid a growing shortage.
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Media Monitor: MIT Study Finds Ketogenic Diet May Raise Small Intestine Cancer Risk in Mice
MIT Technology Review reports a study finding ketogenic diets raised small intestine tumor risk in mice while suppressing colon tumors, with fatty acid oxidation, not ketone bodies, driving the effect.
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Media Monitor: MIT Engineers Develop Recyclable Stretchy Yarn to Cut Textile Waste
MIT Technology Review reports engineers created a melt-and-respin polyethylene yarn that mimics elastic fibers, aiming to reduce the roughly 81 pounds of clothing Americans discard annually.
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Media Monitor: MIT Researcher Reattributes Boston Tea Party Label to 1860s-70s
MIT Technology Review reports historian Tristan Brown found a Boston Tea Party tea chest label was made nearly a century later, tied to a US tea firm of the 1860s and 1870s.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports AI computer to run language models on the moon
MIT Technology Review reports an HPE computer aboard Astrolab's FLIP lunar rover will be the first to run large language models on the moon's surface, testing AI autonomy in space.
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Goodfire researcher's 26,000-word post claims AI models may be easier to understand than thought
Nick Cammarata says revisiting an early image-recognition model showed apparent complexity was a misreading, drawing both praise and sharp skepticism from AI researchers.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Wildfires Accelerating Permafrost Thaw and Carbon Release in Alaska
MIT Technology Review reports that worsening wildfires in Alaska are deepening permafrost thaw and releasing stored carbon, with researchers warning the Arctic-boreal region is shifting from a carbon sink to a source.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Blended Meat Products Aim to Cut Beef Consumption
MIT Technology Review reports startups are blending plants and fungi with real beef to cut emissions, citing a South Carolina school taste test where 92% of students backed the meatballs.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports researchers weigh firefighting to protect permafrost carbon
MIT Technology Review reports researchers are exploring whether fighting remote boreal wildfires could slow permafrost thaw and carbon emissions, including a Yukon Flats pilot and new satellite detection efforts.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports AI agents invented games, drawings when left alone on virtual island
MIT Technology Review reports that copies of Claude Opus 4.7, nicknamed Eko, stranded alone on a simulated island for 30 hours invented games and drawings, hinting at "playful learning."
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Says Computing's Easy Gains Are Ending as Scaling Laws Stall
MIT Technology Review reports that decades of easy chip miniaturization have stalled, with major scaling laws slowing or ending, and that computing's true physical limits remain far off.
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Media Monitor: Luiza Jarovsky Highlights MIT Paper on "Agentic Play" Among AI Agents
Luiza Jarovsky's newsletter spotlights a new MIT paper examining "agentic play" — what happens when AI agents are left to explore on their own — and why it matters.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Examines AI-Designed Viruses and Limits of AI Reasoning
MIT Technology Review reports on a Stanford researcher who used generative AI to propose genetic blueprints for viruses, plus analysis questioning whether today's AI systems truly reason or self-improve.
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Media Monitor: WIRED Backchannel Spotlights MIT Professor's Warning on Chatbot Reliance
WIRED's Backchannel reports MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns in a new book that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots, calling it a state of emergency for humanity.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Examines Growing Market for Pet Longevity, Cloning and Cryonics
MIT Technology Review reports on biotech efforts to extend pets' lives through drugs, cloning and cryonics, weighing the appeal of holding on against the finality of loss.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Retinal Implant Restores Vision for Some With Age-Related Macular Degeneration
MIT Technology Review reports the Prima system, a retinal implant paired with camera-equipped glasses, restored reading and phone use for most advanced AMD patients in testing.
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US Nuclear Operators Pursue Reactor Uprates as AI Electricity Demand Surges
Constellation plans to add nearly a gigawatt across 11 reactors at six plants, while the Energy Department awarded Vistra a $4.2 billion loan for upgrades at three plants.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Examines Six Paths to Preserving the Mind Beyond Death
MIT Technology Review reports on "mind savers" pursuing cognitive immortality, from freezing and transplanting brains to uploading memories, weighing feasibility and the benefits of present-day research.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports Pig Kidneys Frozen for Months Rewarmed and Functioning in Transplant Milestone
MIT Technology Review reports scientists successfully rewarmed vitrified pig kidneys stored at -150 °C for months, including one banked over a year, and restored function after transplant.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Reports on Military Fake Blood, Battery Maker WeLion and GLP-1 Aging Claims
MIT Technology Review's daily briefing covers a $73 million DARPA push for shelf-stable dried blood, Chinese battery maker WeLion's semi-solid cells, and drugmakers' claims that GLP-1 drugs slow aging.
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