Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer whe...
MIT Technology Review Articles
Updated 1 min ago · 10 articles from MIT Technology Review
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 world of technology. Kids are outsmartin...
This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
More than 5 million people around the world with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) experience atrophy in their retinas. And until now, no treatment coul...
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 they weren’t close. They traded glimpse...
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 purred, recall how she used to get stuck ...
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 media—barring children under 15 from major pl...
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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 world of technology. Pig kidneys that we...
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 possible. Over the past few weeks, th...
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 between our ears, with its billions of ...
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 work again for the first time, say sc...
