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US community banks join campaign to shut a GENIUS Act ‘loophole’

US community banks join campaign to shut a...

The Community Bankers Council has asked the Senate for a crypto market structure bill that will ban exchanges and others offering interest on ...

Bitchat dev shrugs off Uganda’s threat to block app: ‘Good luck mate’

Bitchat dev shrugs off Uganda’s threat to ...

Bitchat developer Calle boldly said, “You can’t stop us” after Uganda threatened to block Bitchat ahead of elections next week.

Flow details December exploit that led to $3.9M in losses due to counterfeit tokens

Flow details December exploit that led to ...

A protocol-level flaw allowed assets to be duplicated rather than minted, prompting a network halt and a governance-led recovery process.

Under 10% of an earthquake’s energy makes the ground shake

Under 10% of an earthquake’s energy makes ...

Earthquakes are driven by energy stored up in rocks over millennia—energy that, once released, we perceive mainly in the form of the ground’s ...

Listening to battery failure

Listening to battery failure

Lithium-ion batteries produce faint sounds as they charge, discharge, and degrade. But until now, nobody could interpret those sounds to detec...

Building materials are getting closer to doubling as batteries

Building materials are getting closer to d...

Concrete already builds our world, and an MIT-invented variant known as electron-conducting carbon concrete (ec3, pronounced “e c cubed”) hol...

Powering up (and saving) the planet

Powering up (and saving) the planet

Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite yo...

Starstruck

Few people, if any, contemplate stars—celestial or cinematic—the way Aomawa Shields does. An astronomer and astrobiologist, Shields explores ...

Dennis Whyte’s fusion quest

Dennis Whyte’s fusion quest

Ever since nuclear fusion was discovered in the 1930s, scientists have wondered if we could somehow replicate and harness the phenomenon behin...