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Another year is coming to a close, so let’s look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most with you, our readers.  We published hundreds of stories in 2024, about AI, climate tech, biotech, robotics, space, and more. There were six new issues of our magazine, on themes... Read more

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Here’s a question. Imagine that, for $15,000, you could purchase a robot to pitch in with all the mundane tasks in your household. The catch (aside... Read more

“We meet in the name of Osiris.”  With these words, solemnly intoned, members of the MIT Osiris Society began their clandestine meetings for nearly 70 years. Created in 1903 as a “senior society” and modeled on both the fraternities of Cornell and the mythology of ancient Egypt, Osiris gave MIT’s... Read more

Brackish groundwater is a major potential source of drinking water in underserved areas of the world, but desalinating it affordably is a challenge. A new system developed by mechanical engineering professor Amos Winter, Jon Bessette, SM ’22, and staff engineer Shane Pratt manages to do the job entirely on solar... Read more

Dan Huttenlocher, SM ’84, PhD ’88, leads the way up to the eighth floor of Building 45, the recently completed headquarters of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. “There’s an amazing view of the Great Dome here,” he says, pointing out a panoramic view of campus and the Boston skyline... Read more

We need a strategy to deal with a hydra.  It’s Sunday, January 14, 2024, more than 50 hours since the annual MIT Mystery Hunt kicked off at noon on Friday, and Setec Astronomy is one of more than 200 teams racing to solve hundreds of puzzles over three days. The... Read more

Despite increasing evidence that water flowed on Mars billions of years ago, scientists have been mystified by what happened to the thick, carbon dioxide–rich atmosphere that must have once kept that water from freezing.  Now two MIT geologists think they know. Geology professor Oliver Jagoutz and Joshua Murray, PhD ’24,... Read more

When I last wrote to you in this magazine, I told you a bit about the MIT Collaboratives, an effort to spark new ideas and modes of inquiry and help the people of MIT solve global problems. Since then, we’ve launched the first collaborative, grounding it in the human-centered fields... Read more

Two MIT professors, an alumnus, and a former postdoc are among the winners of 2024’s Nobel Prizes. Professors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, PhD ’89, shared the prize in economics with political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago, with whom they have long collaborated. Using evidence from the... Read more

“THE CULT OF THE FOUNDER.” “THE CULT OF THE TECH GENIUS.”  “Beware: Silicon Valley’s cultists want to turn you into a disruptive deviant.” “Tech’s cult of the founder bounces back.” “Silicon Valley’s Strange, Apocalyptic Cults.” “How the cult of personality and tech-bro culture is killing technology.” “Company or cult?” “Is... Read more

A new gene editing tool that helps cellular machinery skip parts of genes responsible for diseases has been applied to reduce the formation of amyloid-beta plaque precursors in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.... Read more

Scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year... Read more

The standard medication levodopa does not always work against tremors in Parkinson's disease, especially in stressful situations. Propranolol, however, does work during stress, providing insight into the role of the stress system in tremors. MRI scans reveal that propranolol directly inhibits activity in the brain circuit that controls tremors. Doctors... Read more

A year after becoming available, vaccines to protect against RSV in newborns and older adults are being more widely accepted by the American public, according to a new health survey.... Read more

A research team has developed a groundbreaking technology that can treat colon cancer by converting cancer cells into a state resembling normal colon cells without killing them, thus avoiding side effects.... Read more

Researchers have created a platform, called SIMPL2, that revolutionizes the study of protein-protein interactions by simplifying detection while improving measurement accuracy. While protein-protein interactions have previously been considered 'undruggable' using small molecules, the platform addresses this challenge by facilitating the measurement of these interactions -- improving our understanding of the... Read more

In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict.... Read more

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.... Read more

A new kind of repression is gripping Venezuela, and its logic is menacingly opaque.... Read more

Ongoing political chaos will entrench the country’s economic and social problems—and leave Seoul woefully unprepared for Trump.... Read more

A Christmas fair in Romania, an enormous indoor ice rink in Paris, a surfing Santa Claus in Australia, a sunset camel safari in India, a cyclo-cross race in Belgium, and much more... Read more

The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.... Read more

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.... Read more

Are You Ransomware Aware? The No. 1 Cybersecurity Threat that You Cannot Afford to IgnoreThe No. 1 Cybersecurity Threat that You Cannot Afford to Ignore... Read more

Don’t Wait for Them to Find You: What You Need to Know Today About Nation-State Threat ActorsDisinformation is a known tool for nation-state threat actors. Learn what it means for threat intelligence practitioners.What You Need to Know Today About Nation-State Threat Actors... Read more

Preparing for Post-Intrusion RansomwareThis evolving and brutally effective threat can have a significant impact on an organization’s resources, finances, and reputation, but it can be stoppedThis evolving and brutally effective threat can have a significant impact on an organization’s resources, finances, and reputation, but it can be stopped... Read more

Details on BRONZE VINEWOOD, Implicated in Targeting of the U.S. Election Campaign The likely China-based targeted threat group has been active since at least 2017, using a combination of custom and native tools to steal data from its targets... Read more

Counter Threat Unit Researchers Publish Threat Group DefinitionsThe goals of sharing these profiles are to provide insight into CTU characterizations, encourage feedback, and promote discussions within the security community.The goals of sharing these profiles are to provide insight into CTU characterizations, encourage feedback, and promote discussions within the security community.... Read more

By Jessica Kent March 18, 2020 - Before the world was even conscious of the threat posed by COVID-19, artificial intelligence had detected the beginnings of the outbreak. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice daily by Xtelligent Healthcare Media. On December 30, 2019, researchers from BlueDot, a... Read more

The space, which also serves as the agency's office, has membership plans for all types of independent and freelance creatives, and is designed to help increase collaboration and boost business opportunities for members. ... Read more

Northrop Grumman Corp. has opened its expanded Chandler campus as the home for its aerospace launch vehicle business. The 633,000-square-foot campus supports national defense and aerospace projects, including the U.S. missile defense program and satellite launches for the U.S. Air Force, NASA and commercial customers. The bulk of the company’s... Read more

Nate Sachs walked the talk until losing a fierce battle with cancer on Nov. 12. His financial adviser firm, Blueprints for Tomorrow, helped business owners prepare for the unexpected. Sachs, who passed away peacefully surrounded by his family Tuesday morning, made it his mission to help business owners create contingency... Read more

The move will take one of the Valley's largest publicly traded companies into 300,000 square feet of space. ... Read more

The Cambria Hotel Downtown Phoenix on Roosevelt Row has recruited an award-winning chef from Chicago to run its new restaurant, which is set to open Nov. 26. The hotel restaurant, which will be open to both Cambria guests and the general public, will be called Poppy and have a menu... Read more

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IT IS the summer of 1979 and Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the everyman-hero of John Updike’s series of novels, is running a car showroom in Brewer, Pennsylvania. There is a pervasive mood of decline. Local textile mills have closed. Gas prices are soaring. No one wants the traded-in, Detroit-made cars clogging... Read more

THE question of who would replace Sergio Marchionne has been in the air for a year or more, ever since the chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced that he would step down in 2019. But the way the answer came was both shocking and sad. Mr Marchionne’s death,... Read more

OPEN a toolbox, pull out a spanner and you may be holding a bit of the answer to global warming: vanadium, a metal named after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty. Used mostly in alloys to strengthen steel, its appearance may not live up to the romance of its name.... Read more