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The young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors who we believe are worth watching in the years to come.

I helicoptered into the Alaskan wilderness with scientists on the frontlines of permafrost research.

Beef is a climate burden. Can “blended meat” finally succeed in getting us to cut back?

An exclusive interview with Nick Cammarata, the researcher whose 26,000-word viral blog post has AI safety folks celebrating.

The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?

The company has been masterful at storytelling for years. Will the IPO reveal the company behind the mask or lean deeper into the myth-making?

A new era of spaceflight could save astronauts time and cut exposure to cosmic radiation as they rocket to Mars—and beyond.

Researchers are breaking new ground in preserving organs by freezing them, pumping nutrients into them, or supercooling them.

“Xenocortical mice” are a dramatic demonstration of organoid technologies.

Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an instrument of repression.

Age gates can be staggeringly counterproductive, pushing kids to darker corners of the web. Closing loopholes will only make things worse.

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

Millions of AI agents are descending on a web built for humans. Websites are trying to keep them out, but the arrival of these new visitors could transform the internet.

Could new fertilizers help combat high prices?

Sam Altman wants Americans to share in AI’s wealth. The proposal may be more revealing as a political narrative than as a policy plan.

The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029, using a trajectory discovered by AI.

Humanoids are becoming a popular form of public entertainment in China.

Drugs, cloning, and cryonics are on offer—for better or worse.

They can be incredibly effective. But, like any drug, they can come with side effects. And we’re still figuring out exactly what those might be, and how widespread they are.

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI.

Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender say the latest AI breakthroughs and hacking scares aren’t what they seem.

A story about self-aware cities, direct democracy, and a steamy romance.

Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible.

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.

Smart glasses are turning people into unwitting stars of viral videos in India—and giving police a new surveillance tool.

A reporter’s unsettling takeaway from You Can See Everything.

Some far-thinking technologists are working on ways to keep your brain going—even beyond death. Here, we look at six possible paths for keeping your mind going, how feasible they’d be, and what benefits the ­present-day research might bring—even if cognitive immortality doesn’t pan out.

One day human organs could also be banked safely for future transplantation.

The quest for cognitive immortality continues.

Upgrades could bring more clean power to the grid, but there's only so much room to grow.

Inside the US military’s quest to make a shelf-stable substitute for what field medics and trauma doctors need most: more blood.

Mark Chen on what the firm is doing to make its models safe, how a slowdown would work, and why the world is better off with OpenAI in it.

No matter how fundamental an AI is to a discovery, when it comes to winning rights to an invention, it’s humans—and only humans—who can take the credit.

A primer on this crucial and frankly mysterious piece of climate science.

Roman Chiporukha is turning from earthbound luxury travel to an exclusive new frontier.

From e-bikes to stoves, here’s how companies are adding energy storage in surprising ways.

Monitoring apps promise to keep young people safer online, but looking in on kids’ phones can backfire. Online safety experts say there’s a better way.

Massive tree-planting programs lead to unhealthy monocrop plantations. Daisy Dent aims to help forests rebuild themselves.

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

And I'll be joining them.

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There are some seemingly impossible feats too good to give up on. Decoding a pet’s yowls and yips? Yes, please. Scrubbing the world of forever chemicals? Absolutely. Rocketing to Mars in a fraction of the time? Sounds great, but ... are we there yet?

The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA hoping to establish a small lunar city by the end of the century. But the moon is a tremendously hostile place to set up camp.

Most startups fail. A new industry is giving their data an afterlife in AI.

They’re designing viruses, reversing the aging process, and saving lives.

Puzzles and games can reveal gaps in models’ smarts. Try your hand at these seven tests to see if you can outwit AI.

In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up.

The open-closed AI debate is more complicated than it seems.

Large language models are set to go lunar.

Demand for energy storage is surging, with capacity expected to grow eightfold in the next decade. To meet that demand, Moment Energy wants to shortcut a supply chain that now flows largely through China, by domestically repurposing EV batteries into new grid-connected storage systems.