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Whale-Watching from Space: Why Satellites Are Monitoring Wildlife
A new study of whales shows that advances in satellite imagery and related technologies mean we can now recognize specific features of animals all...
How the Spatial Web Will Transform Every Element of Our Careers
What is the future of work? Is our future one of ‘technological socialism’ (where technology is taking care of our needs)? Or is our...
Disrupting Reproduction: Two New Advances in Tech-Assisted Baby-Making
Last week, news of CRISPR-engineered babies launched a firestorm of debate on the future of human reproduction: Is it safe? Is it ethical? Do...
How DeepMind’s AlphaZero Mastered Complex Games With No Human Input
It’s the end of an era in AI research. For decades complex board games like Go, chess, and shogi have been seen as the...
Are We Made of Memories? A Researcher’s Quest to Record His Life
How well do you remember what happened last week? Two weeks ago? Five weeks from last Tuesday? Unless you are meticulous in recording the...
Switching to Electric Vehicles Could Save the US Billions, But Timing Is Everything
Today, less than two percent of the vehicles Americans buy are electric. But within the next three decades, some automotive industry experts expect electric...
A Smartphone App and 3D Printed Attachment for HIV Detection
There are more than 1.1 million people in the US living with HIV, and 1 in 7 of them don’t even know they have...
The Promise—and Complications—of Domestic Robots
Every year, for just a few days in a major city, a small team of roboticists get to live the dream: ordering around their...
Research in Zero Gravity: 6 Wild Projects on the International Space Station
It’s been 20 years since the first components of the International Space Station (ISS) were launched from Earth. Orbiting the planet every 90 minutes...
CRISPR Babies: Stumbling Over Mankind’s Next Giant Leap
During the last weekend in November, MIT Tech Review broke a world-changing story: the birth of the first children to have undergone gene editing...
Welcome to the CRISPR Baby World—Here’s What You Should Know
Last week, the gene editing world was hit by news the equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
In a video on YouTube, Dr. Jiankui He at...
Britain Is Developing an AI-Powered Predictive Policing System
The tantalizing prospect of predicting crime before it happens has got law enforcement agencies excited about AI. Most efforts so far have focused on...
The Surprising Parallels Between Netflix’s ‘Maniac’ and Real-Life Therapy Tech
The human mind can be a confusing and overwhelming place. Despite incredible leaps in human progress, many of us still struggle to make our...
How Blockchain Is Changing Computer Gaming
Ripples of change are starting to spread throughout the $108.9 billion computer gaming industry, as blockchain technology looks set to change core aspects of...
Inspired by Sci-Fi, an Airplane With No Moving Parts and a Blue Ionic Glow
Since their invention more than 100 years ago, airplanes have been moved through the air by the spinning surfaces of propellers or turbines. But...
How One Researcher Is Using VR to Help Our Eyes Adapt to Seeing in...
It’s not like moon-walking astronauts don’t already have plenty of hazards to deal with. There’s less gravity, extreme temperatures, radiation—and the whole place is...
Paralyzed Patients Can Now Control Android Tablets With Their Minds
Patient T6 was barely middle-aged when she began losing muscle function.
A talented musician with a love for red lipstick, T6 was diagnosed with Amyotrophic...
Would a Universal Genetic Database Be a Crime-Solving Wonder, Or an Orwellian Nightmare?
The privacy of our DNA is being increasingly eroded, a phenomenon highlighted by the rash of criminal cases recently solved using publicly-accessible genomic data....
Incepting Sight? This Brain Implant Lets Blind Patients “See” Letters
For most of us, “eyes” are synonymous with “sight”: whatever our eyes capture, we perceive.
Yet under the hood, eyes are only the first step...
How Small Tech Tweaks Can Have a Big Impact on Our Conversations
After Twitter extended its character limit from 140 to 280 in November 2017, there was a bit of an uproar. Stephen King and JK...
What Happens to the Brain in Zero Gravity?
NASA has made a commitment to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. This is an ambitious goal when you think that a typical...
Digital Authoritarianism Is Rising. Here’s What That Means
The internet has long been touted as a force for freedom that can topple dictatorships around the world. But according to a new report...
Thanksgiving Food for Thought: The Tech Helping Make Food Abundant
With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, it’s a great time to reflect on the future of food. Over the last few years, we have...
How the Spatial Web Will Fix What’s Broken About the Internet
Converging exponential technologies will transform media, advertising and the retail world. The world we see, through our digitally-enhanced eyes, will multiply and explode with...
It’s Time For an Airport Security Tech Upgrade
We’re in the midst of one of the busiest weeks of the year for air travel, with 30.6 million passengers expected to fly on...
