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The color of the ocean is changing–here’s why

By the end of the 21st century, the polar oceans may be tropical green, while other areas will shift to a dark blue. It’s another example of how climate change is altering our planet.

This Jenga-playing robot could build your next phone

The robot’s ability to make decisions based on how a Jenga block feels could help with the production of consumer electronics, like cell phones.

People get even more miserable online when it’s smoggy

On China’s Sino Weibo service, when the air gets worse, the posts get very sad.

Ministry of Supply will tailor this sweater to your body while you wait

The collaboration with MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab points to the future of customizable fashion.

This AI can see in total darkness

It can even image tissue inside of your body.

We’re entering a new era of cheap and perfect knock-off art

Move over, Monet.

AI is making Halloween so much spookier

Thanks for the nightmares, technology.

MIT’s new tool erases anything (or anyone) from old photos

The reality distortion field is real, and it’s getting better every day.

These adorable robots work together to build alien structures

Their strangely beautiful work, which can rise up to 15 feet into the air, belies their potential as autonomous builders in disaster zones and elsewhere.

This little robot swims through pipes and finds out if they’re leaking

Lighthouse, U.S. winner of the James Dyson Award, looks like a badminton birdie and detects the suction of water leaving pipes–which is a lot of water that we could put to better use.

AI is coming for industrial design

An algorithm could never replace human designers… oh, who are we kidding? We’re screwed.

MIT’s tool for tracking police surveillance: a cryptographic ledger

Watch the future of manufacturing emerge from a giant vat of gel

MIT’s tiny magnetic robots might one day save your life

It’s like the coolest kid’s science kit you’ve ever seen.

MIT’s new tech turns power plants and data centers into water sources

To keep from overheating, cooling towers vent huge amounts of steam into the atmosphere. A new innovation could efficiently harvest that water for us to drink.

Don’t be afraid of these hallucinating MIT drones

MIT is using simulated environments that can train drones to deal with real-world obstacles without having to put lives or property at risk.

This kit for making medical tests can be put together like Legos

Ampli’s reusable blocks let scientists quickly and cheaply create diagnostic tests–and they could be especially helpful in the developing world.

Neri Oxman and Blu Dot Among 2018’s National Design Award Winners

Women and progressive causes receive top billing in this year’s National Design Awards.

The Transportation Problem No One Is Talking About

It could make autonomous cars in cities safer, too.