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A New Jersey woman is the second living recipient of a pig kidney. A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of ...

An encryption loophole in these apps leaves nearly a billion people vulnerable to eavesdropping. Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that ...

Electrical engineer Nili Persits, PhD ’24, has developed low-cost Raman spectroscopy systems that allow instant chemical analysis. For a harried wastewater manager, a commercial farmer, a ...

Since 1981, MIT students have been squaring off at the annual MIT Integration Bee. Adithya Balachandran ’25 works on a problem at the 43rd Annual MIT Integration Bee in January. Students who ...

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Empowering universities to remain at the forefront of AI research will be key to realizing the field’s long-term potential. The ongoing revolution in artificial intelligence has the potential to ...

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