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How far can we push computing?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you…

The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration

More than 5 million people around the world have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) called…

Love is infrastructure

I. Meet cute Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time…

Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered.

I don’t remember much about Peppy, my first and only pet cat. I can conjure the sensation of stroking her while she…

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.

Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing social…

The Download: reviving frozen pig kidneys and boosting nuclear power

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

How much more can nuclear power plants give?

In this age of rising electricity demand, people are trying to squeeze every last bit of power out of every power plant…

Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ…

Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life

Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to…

The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

The US military’s race to make fake blood

Its call sign was Morphine 1-2. In February 2007, the hulking dual-­rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown…

The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you…

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users…

The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

What it would take to build a city on the moon

Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and…

The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests

In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of…

The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no

Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been…

Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller

The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and sushi around his Texas neighborhood, his mind…

We’re still figuring out the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs

This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research…

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up…

The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

Why we’re watching these climate tech companies

This week, we released our 2026 version of our Climate Tech Companies to Watch list. It’s an annual project that the…

AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon

The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates…

Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI

Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications,…

The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…

Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers

Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also melt away the years. Drug giants…

The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch

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2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

Here’s how our climate team picked 10 promising companies to watch

As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate…

WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries

WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The company’s semi-solid-state cells could improve…

Form Energy and its iron batteries

Form Energy is building iron-based batteries that can store energy for multiple days. The company is ramping up supply…

X-energy and its helium-cooled nuclear reactors

X-energy is developing small modular reactors to satisfy some of the planet’s most power-hungry users: industrial…

Energy Dome and its carbon dioxide batteries

There’s a growing need for long-duration storage to meet energy demand and balance out renewables on the grid. Energy…