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October 20, 2025

This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle

Science Corporation - a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture - has leapfrogged its rival...

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October 16, 2025

The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges just five days or so...

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October 16, 2025

Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization

You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home with a woodstove, and farm your own fish and...

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October 15, 2025

The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

It’s the 25th of June and I’m shivering in my lab-issued underwear in Fort Worth, Texas. Libby Cowgill, an anthropologist in a furry parka, has...

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October 14, 2025

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it

Be honest: Have you ever looked up someone from your childhood on social media with the sole intention of seeing how they’ve aged? One of my...

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October 07, 2025

This company is planning a lithium empire from the shores of the Great Salt Lake

BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah - On a bright afternoon in August, the shore on the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake looks like something out of a science...

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October 01, 2025

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure the English in his...

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September 30, 2025

Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space

Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent years, a crack has formed in the middle of a house. Sewage has leached into the earth. Soil...

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September 08, 2025

How Yichao “Peak” Ji became a global AI app hitmaker

Yichao “Peak” Ji is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this year’s honorees. When Yichao Ji - also known as...

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September 08, 2025

2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

Sneha Goenka is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this year’s honorees. Up to a quarter of children entering...

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September 05, 2025

Putin says organ transplants could grant immortality. Not quite.

This week I’m writing from Manchester, where I’ve been attending a conference on aging. Wednesday was full of talks and presentations by scientists...

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August 27, 2025

AI comes for the job market, security, and prosperity: The Debrief

When I picked up my daughter from summer camp, we settled in for an eight-hour drive through the Appalachian mountains, heading from North Carolina...

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