When wastewater surveillance turns into a hunt for a single infected individual, the ethics get tricky. The proliferation of ...

The company’s charging U-turn reveals the danger in having private companies build the infrastructure needed for climate action. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly ...

The same technologies are being used by Chinese people to make replicas of themselves, their children, and famous public figures. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review ...

Louisiana’s southwestern coastline faces some of the most severe climate predictions in the US. Can a government-led project build the area up and out of crisis? There is more than one way to ...

But what we perceive as deception is AI mindlessly achieving the goals we’ve set for it. A wave of AI systems have “deceived” humans in ways they haven’t been explicitly trained to do, by ...

And it's already succeeded in making platforms like YouTube remove it worldwide. It wasn’t exactly surprising when on Wednesday, May 8, a Hong Kong appeals court sided with the city government ...

AlphaFold 3 can predict how DNA, RNA, and other molecules interact, further cementing its leading role in drug discovery and research. Who will benefit? Google DeepMind has released an improved ...

Just like real atlases, brain atlases vary widely in scale and content. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your ...

Let’s stop inventing reasons to reject cultured meat and other protein alternatives that could dramatically cut climate emissions. Fixing our collective meat problem is one of the trickiest ...

After years of lackluster results, cancer vaccines seem poised for success. Finally. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive ...

Companies like Synchron, Paradromics, and Precision Neuroscience are also racing to develop brain implants This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech ...

Despite what happens in Google’s executive suites, workers themselves have tools to force change. Here's how. It’s a hell of a time to have a conscience if you work in tech. The ongoing ...