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  How Technology Review got its start

  Tech Review has graced coffee tables of MIT alumni for 125 years. Here’s how it all began—and how the fledgling magazine helped rally alumni to oppose a merger with Harvard.
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  Buy Review

  The ads that helped pay Technology Review’s bills reflect the changing technological landscape of the past 125 years.
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  Noteworthy

  Reading Class Notes taught me what it means to be an MIT alum.
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  Infinite entrepreneurship

  A startup mindset plays a big role in delivering ideas to the world.
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  Check it out

  Students peruse the collection of the List Museum’s Student Lending Art Program.
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  Diabetes treatment without injections

  An implantable device contains encapsulated cells that produce insulin, plus a tiny oxygen-producing factory that keeps them healthy.
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  A smart pill to track IBD

  The ingestible device combines engineered bacteria with low-power electronics to monitor gut inflammation in real time.
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  A five-layer graphene surprise

  Unusual electronic behavior in a specific form of the material could help pack more data into magnetic memory devices.
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  Ancient Amazonians created “dark earth”

  The rich soil sustained complex societies and also sequestered large amounts of carbon, a new study suggests.
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  A Nobel Prize for Bawendi

  The MIT chemist shares the award for his work on quantum dots.
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  Cleaner concrete

  An alum’s cement alternative could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from concrete production.
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  Fuel from sunlight

  An MIT system could harness 40% of solar heat to produce clean hydrogen for transportation.
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  Sea + sun = drink

  A passive solar device could make desalinated seawater less expensive than tap water.
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  Making RNA vaccines more powerful

  A new approach that strengthens the immune response could lead to intranasal vaccines for covid-19 and other diseases.
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  Germicidal danger

  While useful for killing pathogens like those that cause covid-19 and the flu, sanitizing ultraviolet lights may cause unwanted chemical reactions that create indoor air pollution.
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  Recent books from the MIT community

  January/February 2024

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