Let’s stop inventing reasons to reject cultured meat and other protein alternatives that could dramatically cut climate ...

We need more research, including outdoor experiments, to make better-informed decisions about such climate interventions. The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering ...

Tariffs and IRA tax incentives are starting to reshape global supply chains—but vast challenges lie ahead, explains Shawn Qu, founder of Canadian Solar. Whenever you see a solar panel, most ...

A world powered by electricity from abundant, renewable resources is now within reach. In 1856, Napoleon III commissioned a baby rattle for his newborn son, to be made from one of the most ...

AI is upending the way robots learn, leaving companies and researchers with a need for more data. Getting it means wrestling with a host of ethical and legal questions. Since ChatGPT was released ...

Emily Baker hopes her designs can make it cheaper and easier to build stuff in disaster zones or outer space. As a child, Emily Baker loved to make paper versions of things: cameras, a spaceship ...

And it’s scary how little control we have over how it’s used. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...

Louisiana’s southwestern coastline faces some of the most severe climate predictions in the US. Can a government-led project build the area up and out of crisis? There is more than one way to ...

Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real. I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the ...

Plus: AI companies don't even need a product to raise serious capital these days This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in ...

Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, followed up her ultrathin brain probes with tools to study the gut-brain connection—and now leads an MIT research center investigating neural pathways throughout the ...