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AI is often described as a black box, but it’s not just its inner workings that are mysterious. Leading AI companies closely guard energy usage data, making it difficult to …

Taxation and resentment: race, party, and class in American tax attitudes. By Andrea Louise Campbell, Professor of Political Science Princeton University Press, 2025, $29.95 Dr. Adventure: Danger and Discovery from …

John Hart, co-director of MIT’s Initiative for New ManufacturingM Scott Breuer Eventually, Love and his colleagues created a new method for making batches of certain types of drugs. That is …

Choi has been particularly central to this push as the agency’s chief of staff through 2023, a position in which she took the lead on revamping the organizational culture. She …

The drone used its license plate reader to identify the suspicious vehicle in the mall parking lot and captured high-definition photos that were sent to authorities on the ground. The …

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Dennis White, then-director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, described efforts to address climate change through carbon-free electricity at a conference in 2019.Gretchen ERTL The idea is straightforward: Fill …

“Through some careful scientific work, our team has managed to decode the acoustic emissions,” says Martin Z. Bazant, professor of chemical engineering and mathematics. They were able to classify them …

We did the math on the energy footprint of AI. Here’s the story you may not have heard. Understanding the energy use of AI was a big global conversation in …