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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.

Disney’s Crazy Jacket Makes You Feel Like You’re Covered In Bugs

But do you really want to simulate that?

This MIT Machine Captures The Dreams You Never Remember

Great artists and thinkers have found inspiration in their lucid “microdreams” for centuries. Now, there’s an interface that can record them for you.

Calm Interfaces Are Here, And They’re Wonderful

Calm interfaces will make you breathe again.

Who Is Neri Oxman?

Why We Should Be Building Like Ancient Greeks

An MIT professor introduces cyclopean masonry, a new method of building that’s actually really old.

This Is Why It’s So Hard To Calculate How Much Uber Drivers Earn

An MIT study measuring low driver wages was quickly debunked, but researchers need better data, and ride-hail companies rarely cooperate.