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The quest to measure our relationship with nature
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The quest to measure our relationship with nature

As a movement, environmentalism has been pretty misanthropic. Understandably so—we humans have done some destructive things to the ecosystems around us. In the 21st century, though, mainstream conservation is learning that humans can be a force for good. Foresters are turning to Indigenous burning p...

Emma Marris
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Is carbon removal in trouble?
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Is carbon removal in trouble?

Last week, news outlets reported that Microsoft was pausing carbon removal purchases. It was something of a bombshell. The thing is, Microsoft is the carbon removal market. The company has single-handedly purchased something like 80% of all contracted carbon removal. If you’re looking for someone to...

Casey Crownhart
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The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10

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. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?  Just before Artemis II began its historic slings...

Thomas Macaulay
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Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram

From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone. The app asks him to upload a photo associated with the account, so he clicks on a picture of a 30-something Asian man. Next, the app requests to open the camera for a video “liveness”...

Fiona Kelliher
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No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
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MIT Technology Review · Science

No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all

For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-­edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, they’d landed on a com...

Stephen Ornes
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Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX

The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exercis...

MIT Technology Review Insights
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Redefining the future of software engineering
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Redefining the future of software engineering

Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere. Second, the adoption of development operations (DevOps) and agile methodologies took software from siloed...

MIT Technology Review Insights
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The Download: the state of AI, and protecting bears with drones
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The Download: the state of AI, and protecting bears with drones

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. Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.  If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whi...

Thomas Macaulay
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Coming soon: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
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MIT Technology Review · Science

Coming soon: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

Each year we compile our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list, featuring our educated predictions for which technologies will have the biggest impact on how we live and work. This year, however, we had a dilemma. While our final picks encompass all our core coverage areas (energy, AI, and biotech, plus...

Niall Firth, Amy Nordrum
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The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal
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MIT Technology Review · Science

The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal

You’ve probably heard some version of this idea before: that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” That is to say, around 45,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens first arrived in Europe, they met members of a cousin species—the broad-browed, heavier-set Neanderthals—and, well, one thing led to another...

Ben Crair
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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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