MIT Technology Review

Joining the circulation of two mice weakened the younger one, but didn’t do much for the old one.

The defeat of carbon pricing in Washington State contrasts with its northern neighbor, where carbon taxes are now the rule.

President-elect Trump’s promise to bring back production jobs ignores the realities of advanced manufacturing.

A new study suggests that racial and gender bias affect the freelancing websites TaskRabbit and Fiverr—and may be baked into underlying algorithms.

Several companies are taking advantage of the lack of restrictions on testing autonomous vehicles in China.

The inventor of the bestselling vacuum cleaner robot has created a bot that cuts weeds.

Unable to resist any opportunity to sell you something, the e-commerce leader is opening up brick-and-mortar bookstores. But its online prowess doesn’t yet translate into a very good retail experience.

Male contraception research is a field littered with failures, but a few promising candidates are in the pipeline.

We know very few specifics about our next leader’s stance on many technology policies.

Nearly 20 percent of all election-related tweets come from an army of influential robots.

Synthetic biologists are developing genetically modified bacteria that you swallow, but no one knows yet how they should be regulated.

The Pixel phone is the tech giant’s attempt to sell high-end, highly profitable gadgets and monetize its AI investments.

The pace at which conventional chips improve is slowing, and these startups say optical computers are the answer.

A needleless, remote-controlled device for tissue expansion is awaiting FDA approval.

Hair-care company Living Proof explains how it uses biotech to develop its products.

Twenty years ago, Brian Behlendorf helped kick-start the Web—now he’s betting the technology behind Bitcoin can make the world fairer.

The billionaire is the first major donor to back the idea of creating an atlas of all human cells.

The storage company Box ratchets up its competition with Dropbox.

The coming wave of commercial drones is already exposing gaps in today’s privacy laws.

Virtual assistants that can read social cues and nonverbal signals are less jarring—and surprisingly persuasive.

The Obama administration has been touting a decrease in commercial espionage, but the reality for corporate America may be more complicated.

Will garage gene editing unleash a biological plague? Special Agent Ed You is ready if it does.

The Chinese government likes to control social media and what people do with it—but Facebook looks willing to launch in China anyway.

Greenville, South Carolina, has bet its future on high-tech manufacturing. Who wins and who loses in this increasingly automated economy?

Uber thinks its self-driving taxis could change the way millions of people get around. But autonomous vehicles aren’t any­where near to being ready for the roads.

Set aside the questions of whether it’s wise to put a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border or who should pay for it. It simply can’t be done at the price Donald Trump has claimed.

Set aside the questions of whether it’s wise to put a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border or who should pay for it. It simply can’t be done at the price Donald Trump has claimed.

Uber thinks its self-driving taxis could change the way millions of people get around. But autonomous vehicles aren’t any­where near to being ready for the roads.

Scientists are rushing to figure out how to use the gene-editing tool to stop devastating diseases like muscular dystrophy.

Scientists seek the holy grail for PTSD research: targets in the brain that could respond to drugs.

You don’t have to be Kim Kardashian to make money promoting products on social media.

Novel treatments for neurological diseases might be possible with a flexible mesh that can prod individual brain cells.

It’s time to rethink the role that government plays in shaping and supporting policies to solve big problems like climate change and income inequality.

The founder of Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX is deservedly admired for his technological insight. But is his latest business plan reckless?

Mobileye wants competing carmakers to contribute on-the-road data to help teach automated cars how to drive safely.

Fanuc, a company that produces robot arms for factories, is trying to get them to learn on the job.

How the search giant found itself breeding mosquitoes to try to stop the spread of the Zika virus.

Filmmaker Douglas Trumbull has invented a super-immersive film format and projection technology in hopes of improving the cinematic experience. Now he needs to get the industry to pay attention.

Election security experts say officials should prepare for cyberattacks that target data about voters.

Cattle that can crank out human antibodies are being tested as a first line of defense against infectious diseases.

Wind power has transformed the heart of fossil-fuel country. Can the rest of the United States follow suit?

Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile.

Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile.

There are hundreds of early clinical trials, but only a handful of late-stage ones have reached completion.

A first peek at the search giant’s health-tracking wearable gadget.

It made a night of partisan shouting seem even more divisive.

It’s not safe to connect our voting infrastructure to the Internet, but some election boards are doing it anyway.

It’s not safe to connect our voting infrastructure to the Internet, but some election boards are doing it anyway.

Google’s chatty virtual helper could make search more useful but disrupt the company’s business model.

The chatty virtual helper could make search more useful but disrupt the company’s business model.