MIT News reports researchers have figured out how to 3D print "semiconductor-free logic gates" that can be assembled into something that could do computations - work they began in the pandemic days, when semiconductors suddenly became scarce. Current polymer-based 3D printers will never be able to reproduce state-of-the-art chips (with circuits close enough to spark concern about quantum effects), but then, not everything needs that kind of CPU, they say.
MIT News reports two MIT economists and a University of Chicago colleague have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in economics.
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson and James Robinson in Chicago shared the award for showing that "democracies, which hold to the rule of law and provide individual rights, have spurred greater economic activity over the last 500 years."
So there's this annual event called New York Bagelfest and they always pick a "best of the fest" bagel and this year, the award went to Bagelsaurus, which New Yorkers will have to take Acela and then the Red Line to try in the wild.
Harvard acted to bar outsiders from the Yard after somebody, apparently not affiliated with the university, vandalized the statue and the building with red paint as a protest against Israeli actions in Gaza, the Crimson reports.
Sean Hennessey shows us the human chain moving books through Porter Square today from Porter Books' old location to its new one.
Cambridge Day reports work that includes widening the pedestrian/bicycle path and reducing the speed limit on Memorial Drive outbound from the BU Bridge starts Monday.
Streetsblog Mass reports the driver who hit and killed John Corcoran on a pedestrian/bicyclist path next to Memorial Drive has had his license suspended during an investigation but has yet to be charged with anything: Read more.
A San Francisco man was arrested yesterday on charges he sent several voice-mail messages to two companies, one in Somerville, one in Cambridge, that he was furious at them and was planning to head over with an AK-47 and a handgun with a silencer and mow down everybody he can. Read more.
The MBTA says it's once again running trolleys north of North Station, even as the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Transit Administration and the state Department of Public Utilities continue to investigate how the front wheels of one trolley came off the tracks Tuesday afternoon, sending six passengers to the hospital. Read more.
The MBTA reports this morning it is running shuttle buses along the Union Square and Medford/Tufts branches of the Green Line Extension as it continues to investigate yesterday afternoon's derailment near Lechmere that sent six people to the hospital.
The National Transportation Safety Board announced it has sent a team of investigators to Cambridge to also try to figure out what failed and made the front wheels of a trolley slip off the rails.
Not supposed to bend that way: Alexander Taylor was on the Community Path just after the derailment.
The Cambridge Fire Department reports several people suffered non-life-threatening injuries when a trolley came off the tracks near 10 Morgan Ave.
A small group of people yesterday protested the "censorship" of the bookstores in Harvard and Porter squares for allegedly refusing to carry any books by or about brainworm-adled whale-head enthusiast and Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cambridge Day quoted one protester as saying, sure, she could just ask a bookstore to carry some of the dead-bear fan's tomes, but bookstores should know better and stock books she might serendipitously come across.
The Cambridge City Council yesterday agreed to spend $3 million to buy a 31-acre parcel on Lexington near the city's main drinking-water reservoir to keep it as a tree-filled buffer zone rather than letting a developer cut down roughly 1,000 trees to put up solar panels, the Harvard Crimson reports.
Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko stopped for a moment on the Mass. Ave. Bridge to enjoy the sunset this evening.
Streetsblog Mass reports on the fatal crash near the BU Boathouse and BU Bridge, along a stretch of Memorial Drive that safety activists had urged DCR to do something about, but it didn't.
The Charles in bloom and map of the affected area, by CRWA.
The state Department of Public Health yesterday confirmed that the Charles River from the Longfellow to the dam is now full of blue-green algae, which means you need to be especially careful to keep your dogs and young children out of it, the Charles River Watershed Association reports. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer snapped the situation this morning at Porter Square, where both escalators - and one of the stairs - were blocked for some sort of repair work.
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