This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study.…
Later this year, the US company Reflect Orbital plans to launch a test…
The goal is to test the feasibility of the company’s plans to launch u…
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform.…
Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with dr…
AI models are now able to generate atomic designs for drugs almost as …
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators.…
Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam A…
Upon closer inspection, they are all calling for the same thing: a vie…
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.…
“There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a…
Reuel is co-lead of a new research project, called the AI Observatory,…
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans have ever ventured from Earth, surpassing the distance set by Apollo 13 in 1972 by some 4,000 miles.…
While no space mission can live up to the historic touchdown of Apollo…
It drew tens of millions of viewers and inspired outpourings of “moon …
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America.…
There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined under…
This ancient brine turned out to be a habitat for living microbes that…
Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”
This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female.They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome.…
It allowed them to create female clones of male mice.
That’s right: female animals that are genetically identical to males, …
Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy
Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech.…
This was fodder for the right-wing information sphere for years—then i…
Watch a conversation exploring how it started, where it’s going, and w…
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and police abuse.…
Several changes aim directly at a problem that has made recent headlin…
Flock’s 120,000 cameras form a nationwide network that police departme…
What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere.June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began.…
The contiguous US endured its hottest month on record in July.
South Korea saw its highest-ever recorded temperature.
How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers
Next month, on September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building clever technical fixes for sticky problems.…
By finding the top young innovators globally and learning what they’re…
As a newsroom, we also use this exercise to help us spot rising talent…