Every AI coding agent can analyze your data. But when it’s time to share the results, they give you Markdown, a format most stakeholders have never heard of. Your team lives in Word documents. They know how to open, edit, share, comment on, and forward a .docx file. They don’t know what Markdown is, and they shouldn’t have to. Here’s what usually happens: you ask Claude Code to summarize something. It gives you beautiful Markdown. Now you copy-paste it into Google […]

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The Trump administration violated the Fifth Amendment when canceling billions of dollars in environmental grants for projects in “blue states” that didn’t vote for him in the last election, a judge ruled Monday. Trump’s blatant discrimination came on the same day as the government shut down last fall. In total, 315 grants were terminated in October, ending support for 223 projects worth approximately $7.5 billion, the Department of Energy confirmed. All the awardees, except for one, were based […]

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During a summer internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Ivy Mahncke, an undergraduate student of robotics engineering at Olin College of Engineering, took a hands-on approach to testing algorithms for underwater navigation. She first discovered her love for working with underwater robotics as an intern at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2024. Drawn by the chance to tackle new problems and cutting-edge algorithm development, Mahncke began an internship with Lincoln Laboratory’s Advanced Undersea Systems and Technology Group in […]

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PALO, Iowa—There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town. All three establishments, including the gas station, stand on the same half-mile stretch of First Street, an artery that divides the marshy floodplain of the Cedar River to the east from hundreds of acres of cornfields on the west. During historic flooding in 2008, the Cedar River surged 10 feet above its previous record, cresting at […]

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Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. That is a major accomplishment, according to Dean Price, but he believes that our country needs much more out of nuclear energy, especially at a moment when alternatives to fossil fuel-based power plants are desperately being sought. He became a nuclear engineer for this very reason […]

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How engineering teams in simulation and ML waste years rebuilding what already exists, and what to do instead In engineering, there is a certain pride attached to building everything yourself. It feels serious, rigorous, and disciplined. In solver development, this instinct often appears as the desire to create an internal stack for nearly every layer: the numerical core, the optimization tooling, the model format, the training framework, the deployment runtime, and the surrounding workflow. At first glance, that can […]

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