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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: China’s AI drama factory and the WHO’s missing health targets

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. How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines China’s short drama industry is fueled by bite-sized, melodramatic, and smutty shows built for sma...

Thomas Macaulay 3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obvious spiral arms. Reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially obscure the galaxy’s full face, while red, blue, and orange light from distant...

3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The world is on track to miss its health targets

Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, assesses whether we’re on track to reach ambitious goals set in 2015. It’s a bit like a health grade. The 2026 report was published on Wednesday....

Jessica Hamzelou 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines

In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man says. “Give me an hei...

Caiwei Chen 3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Picturing Earth in a New Light

A recent analysis revealed where artificial light at night has intensified, as well as where it has diminished.

3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA Draws on Industry for Mars Telecommunications Network

On Thursday, NASA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking industry collaboration for the Mars Telecommunications Network. Reliable, high bandwidth communications is necessary to relay science data, high-definition imagery, and critical information during Mars missions. The network will use high...

Lauren E. Low 3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

NASA, Industry Prepare Cryogenic Fuel Technology Demo

NASA is collaborating with Eta Space of Rockledge, Florida, on an in‑orbit technology demonstration to advance a key capability for future deep space missions. The Liquid Oxygen Flight Demonstration, or LOXSAT, will test cryogenic fluid management technologies necessary for creating in-space propell...

Lee Mohon 3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Fresh Food Delivery for Space Station

NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway (bottom left), Jessica Meir (middle left), and Chris Williams (bottom right), and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot (top right) have some fun with food and microgravity in this April 19, 2026, photo. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft delive...

HQ Web Team 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

Data readiness for agentic AI in financial services

Financial services companies have unique needs when it comes to business AI. They operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors while responding to external events that are updated by the second. As a result, the success of agentic AI in financial services depends less on the sophistication of...

MIT Technology Review Insights 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems

When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party AI models, and you will get powerful results. But your data passes through systems you do not own, u...

MIT Technology Review Insights 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers

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. The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn When Jennifer got a research job in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial r...

Thomas Macaulay 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Tesla Semi could be a big deal for electric trucking

The Tesla Semi has officially arrived. The company recently released a photo of the first vehicle rolling off its new full-scale production line. This moment has been nearly a decade in the making: The company first announced the Tesla Semi in late 2017. And now we’ve got final battery specs, offici...

Casey Crownhart 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn 

When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see if the tech would pull up the porn videos she’d made more than 10 years before, when she was in her early 20s. It did in fact return…

Jessica Klein 3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Ice Moves Out of Aniak

Spring melt along Alaska’s Kuskokwim River caused ice jams and flooding.

3 months ago

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NASA-Supported Space Tech Advances Earthly Construction

An innovative 3D printing process that advanced NASA’s approach to outfitting a lunar habitat is making buildings on Earth beautiful, efficient, and strong.  Instead of building structures layer by layer, Branch Technology Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee, has develo...

Andrew Wagner 3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

Rise Goes to Washington

“Rise,” the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen speak with congressional staff, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. NASA’s Artemis II mission took...

HQ Web Team 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.  A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawy...

Eileen Guo 3 months ago

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NASA Outlines Preliminary Artemis III Mission Plans

NASA is moving quickly to define next year’s Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agency’s Orion spacecraft and commercial landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX. Since a February announcement adding an Artemis mission a...

Lauren E. Low 3 months ago

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Studying Pneumonia in Space for Heart Health on Earth

Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are uncovering how bacteria that causes pneumonia can lead to long-term damage in the heart. Researchers are leveraging the space environment to observe how stem cell derived heart tissues respond to bacterial infections, to discover ne...

Christian M. Getteau 3 months ago

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NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Reveals Dazzling Night Sky

NASA’s TESS has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date

3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft

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. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup called Varda Space Industries is betting that the future of pharmaceuticals lies in orbit....

Thomas Macaulay 3 months ago

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MIT Technology Review · Science

A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial

Varda Space Industries, a startup that’s been pitching its ability to perform drug experiments in space, says it has signed up the pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics in what may be remembered as a notable step toward in-orbit manufacturing. The idea of building things in outer space for use...

Antonio Regalado 3 months ago

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NASA Breaking News · Science

America’s Emerald Isle

Beaver Island is one in a string of verdant and scenic jewels in a northern Lake Michigan archipelago.

3 months ago

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NASA Langley Engineer Attends FAA Training

At a busy airport, every aircraft in the area shares just a handful of radio frequencies. Spectrum and time are constrained and if multiple people speak at once, both messages can get lost. Communications like “clearance delivery,” which require long transmissions and readbacks, are chal...

Sondra Woodward 3 months ago

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