The company is making a foray into scientific discovery with an AI built to help manufacture stem cells. When you think of AI’s contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the ...

It’s not always easy to choose whether to store, donate or discard extra IVF embryos. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter.

Frozen embryos are filling storage banks around the world. It's a struggle to know what to do with them. Lisa Holligan already had two children when she decided to try for another baby. Her first ...

Reopening old nuclear plants can only go so far. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here.

Machine learning is bringing us closer to a Babel-fish-style universal translation device. Meta has released a new AI model that can translate speech from 101 different languages. It represents a ...

Global shifts, advancing tech, and data center demand: Here’s what’s coming in 2025 and beyond. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies ...

If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires. Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be ending third-party fact ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

AI advances are rapidly speeding up the process of training robots, and helping them do new tasks almost instantly. Agility, Amazon, Covariant, Robust, Toyota Research Institute Now Generative AI ...

The US still has no federal privacy law. But recent enforcement actions against data brokers may offer some new protections for Americans’ personal information. MIT Technology Review’s What ...

More volunteers will get Elon Musk’s brain implant, but don’t expect a product soon. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give ...

Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak? This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech ...