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El Niño? Climate change? All of the above? This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began.

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source. When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what ...

How companies are freeing themselves of legacy data systems to power AI agents that deliver trusted, autonomous action.

Rising temperatures can affect our power supply, including nuclear and natural-gas power plants. Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as ...

On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators Under 35, recognizing 35 young people from around the world who are doing groundbreaking scientific work and building ...

Our 2026 Innovators Under 35 list will be out soon. Here’s what we looked for as we sifted through 550 nominations from ...

Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, ...

Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, ...

AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone ...

The sex reversal technique could be used to help rescue endangered species, say the researchers behind the work.

AI agents can instead model the iterative, highly contingent process of actual research. While tools like AlphaFold apply a ...