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 ...

Scientists hope to leverage mRNA for a bevy of vaccines and therapeutics. Hello again from The Checkup! This week the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine honored two scientists whose research ...

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

Senior reporter Eileen Guo has been following an idea that moved from the fringes of the right-wing Internet to drive Trump policy.

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

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

A new field of science is using genetic sequencing to predict what kind of person an embryo might become. Some parents turn to these tests to avoid devastating genetic disorders, while a much smaller ...

At a convening for the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program, I saw how academic researchers are facing up to the challenges of the AI era.

Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they ...

Chipmakers are betting that smaller, more specialized chips can extend the life of Moore’s Law. Advanced Micro Devices, Intel, Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express Now Packaging. It may sound boring ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any ...

For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under ...