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Edition #127 · Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · 2733 positive stories
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Taking your temperature from the inside

MIT Technology Review 2026-08-25
Taking your temperature from the inside

Oral and forehead thermometers may not accurately capture a person’s core body temperature, and the few ingestible temperature sensors on the market are so big they are hard to swallow and risk obstructing the GI tract. But MIT engineers created one that can send continuous temperature updates at a size of just six by four millimeters. To create it, the researchers built a circuit that can fit on a one-square-­millimeter silicon chip and designed an oscillator based on leakage current - the smal

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