MIT Technology Review

A new class of experimental therapies is emerging from the study of how the community of microörganisms in your body contributes to disease.

Fear of the Zika virus could generate support for gene drives, a radical technology able to make species go extinct.

A major technological shift is needed in the next few years if computer chips are to keep improving.

Some hedge funds boast that AI algorithms make their trading decisions—but these systems might be more conventional than they seem.

Researchers have begun human clinical trials for a device, inspired by woodpeckers, that’s meant to keep the brain from moving around so much inside the skull when it gets hit.

A challenge by DARPA asks scientists to develop ways to record from a million neurons at a time.

If virtual reality is going to be truly immersive, holding a game controller could be distracting. Companies will instead try to let you control the action with your eyes, head, or fingers.

Researchers have begun to understand the economic and social damage caused by climate change.

A nanomaterials chemist has figured out a good way to mimic leaves and turn water and carbon dioxide into things we need.

One cognitive scientist thinks the leading approach to machine learning can be improved by ideas gleaned from studying children.