MIT Technology Review

Its founders think crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, and blockchain voting can help citizens call the shots.

Its new fundamental research division could help the company regain international favor and outmaneuver the US.

Another genetically edited baby is due, but the world may never learn of its birth if the Chinese government decides to keep it a secret.

Unless we begin shutting down coal and natural-gas facilities, and stop building new ones, we’re doomed to miss the targets of the Paris treaty.

Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.

DeepNude has now been taken offline, but it won’t be the last time such technology is used to target vulnerable populations.

Twenty Democratic candidates had a chance to tell voters why climate change should be America’s top political priority. They mostly blew it.

Get ready for Dragonfly’s autonomous flight on Saturn’s largest moon.

Because seven minutes in a two-hour debate on the most pressing topic of our time is ridiculous.

Mathematical tools developed to analyze interactions in natural ecosystems help explain which films in the Marvel Universe make the most money.

Since the advent of the internet and after countless, massive breaches, the global community continues to struggle with cyber security and to treat it as an afterthought.

The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes.

Spaceplanes, giant rockets, tethers and catapults

Satellites are so crucial that attacking them could be seen as an act of war. The bad news is, it may have already happened.

A short story about nanosatellites, love, and freedom

As bigger probes get sent into space, the problem of how to slow them down again is getting harder

China, the US, and the European Space Agency are sending vehicles to explore the red planet. They’ll be joined by a Russian lander and an Emirati orbiter.

Relativity Space, a well-funded startup, is going all-in on additive manufacturing. But is that too much of a good thing?

Dave Masten builds rockets on a shoestring in the desert—can he help NASA reinvent itself as a lean, agile enterprise?

Hard to justify in practical terms, a return to the moon nonetheless seems almost inevitable

The Libra cryptocurrency was unveiled on a wave of hype and speculation. But what its white paper suggested about Facebook’s vision for how we manage our identifying credentials may be just as important.

LightSail-2’s large reflective sails will unfurl in about a week, capturing light from the sun and using that to propel the spacecraft

LeadGenius claims to be an online contract company that treats its workers with more respect. Its founder and CEO Prayag Narula tells us why fairness is at its core.

Using farms to capture and store more carbon in soil is becoming trendy, but the science is still not settled on how much it can help to address climate change.

Squirrels mislabeled as sea lions and dragonflies confused with manhole covers are challenging algorithms to be more resilient to attacks.

Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and other presidential hopefuls will be protected against AI doppelgängers thanks to a technique that looks at how they move.