MIT Technology Review

We tend to think of children as blindly trusting of whatever information comes their way. They’re not.

Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need.

The North Korean regime appears to see cryptocurrency as a shortcut to economic development.

New estimates show how much China’s investments in AI have been overblown.

SpaceX is sending a slew of weird new experiments to the space station, including one where astronauts will experiment with fire.

And greenhouse gases will continue to climb until nations collectively commit to much more aggressive action.

He Jiankui’s manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.

The report describing the creation of the world’s first gene-edited babies creates an ethical quandary for scientific journals.

The unpublished research paper by He Jiankui about the creation of the babies shows proof of attempted gene editing gone awry.

An intelligence startup warns that China is exploiting Western quantum scientists for military ends. The evidence is thin, but tensions are rising.

Human rights abuse and a decimated reputation killed Hacking Team. The new owners want to rebuild.

Twitter said it would shut down any account that hasn’t logged in for six months, starting from December 11. It wasn’t ready for the backlash.

By playing with quantum entanglement, physicists hope to probe their ideas about quantum gravity for the first time.

Scientists argue we may cross the point of no return for some ecosystems in a little more than a decade.

Despite how easy it is to prevent, China continues to allow launch debris to rain down on rural towns and threaten people’s safety.

A smart bit of bait-and-switch that got past the moderators shows how the app is growing up. But it also raises questions about censorship on the platform.

With every passing year, more and more countries are launching their own space agencies to participate in a growing space economy.

The world’s leading surveillance and spyware companies gathered in Paris to meet growing demand from governments around the world.

Your space questions, answered.

Finding help can be a struggle for gamers who feel their playing has gotten out of control.

Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and who actually wrote them.

While central bank digital currencies may address problems in other countries, the US doesn’t have those problems, according to Fed chair Jerome Powell.

Cryptocurrencies are famously energy hungry. So some researchers say the answer is a more energy-efficient form of computing.

A new pair of gamma-ray bursts includes one that’s 10 times more powerful than the previous record holder.

A new generation of specialized hardware could make drug development and material discovery orders of magnitude faster.

Your space questions, answered.