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NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis III Moon Rocket Stage
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis III Moon Rocket Stage

NASA will roll the largest section of the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, which will launch the second crewed Artemis mission, out of the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Monday, April 20. What’s called the top four-fifths of the SLS core stage – the section containing...

Jennifer M. Dooren
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NASA Announces 32nd Annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Announces 32nd Annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners

NASA’s 32nd annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, one of the agency’s longest-standing student challenges, culminated April 10-11 with its final excursion event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Spanning nine months, the challe...

Lee Mohon
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NASA Awards Data Engineering, Informatics Support Contract
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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Awards Data Engineering, Informatics Support Contract

NASA has selected Development Seed of Washington to provide research and development services to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract w...

Jessica Taveau
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4852–4858: When Data Take Their Time…
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4852–4858: When Data Take Their Time…

Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, April 3, 2026 I was the geology science team lead on Monday for planning Sols 4852-4853, when our data did not arrive on time for planning. Thus, we got creative as a team think...

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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4845-4851: Bye-Bye Boxwork, Bye-Bye
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NASA Breaking News · Science

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4845-4851: Bye-Bye Boxwork, Bye-Bye

Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Strategic Planner and Planetary Geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 27, 2026 Last weekend’s drive took us just over the southernmost contact of the boxwork terrain with the surrounding layered sulfate unit. This was o...

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Why opinion on AI is so divided
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Why opinion on AI is so divided

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In an industry that doesn’t stand still, Stanford’s AI Index, an annual roundup of key results and trends, is a chance to take a breath. (It’s a marathon, not a s...

Will Douglas Heaven
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Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.

If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI can’t even read a clock. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, AI’s annual report card, comes out today and cuts th...

Michelle Kim
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The Download: how humans make decisions, and Moderna’s “vaccine” word games
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: how humans make decisions, and Moderna’s “vaccine” word games

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. You have no choice in reading this article—maybe How do humans make decisions? The question has been on Uri Maoz’s mind since he read an article in hi...

Thomas Macaulay
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Job titles of the future: Wildlife first responder
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Job titles of the future: Wildlife first responder

Grizzly bears have made such a comeback across eastern Montana that in 2017, the state hired its first-ever prairie-based grizzly manager: wildlife biologist Wesley Sarmento.  For some seven years, Sarmento worked to keep both the bears, which are still listed as threatened under the Endangered...

Emily Senkosky
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You have no choice in reading this article—maybe
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MIT Technology Review · Science

You have no choice in reading this article—maybe

Uri Maoz loved doing his human research, back when he was getting his PhD. He was studying a very specific topic in computational neuroscience: how the brain instructs our arms to move and how our gray matter in turn perceives that motion.  Then his professor asked him to deliver an undergrad l...

Sarah Scoles
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What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma
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MIT Technology Review · Science

What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma

Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America? A vaccine—or an “individualized neoantigen treatment”? That’s the Trump-era vocabulary paradox facing Moderna, the covid-19 shot maker whose plans for next-generation mRNA vaccines against flus and e...

Antonio Regalado
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