MIT Technology Review

Rockets that land. T Cells that crush cancer. A gigafactory for solar power. See our picks for the technologies solving big problems in 2016.

Tactonic is making pressure-sensing mats that can tell how you move your toes, which could make for more immersive VR exploration.

A breakthrough technology from neuroscience might allow blind people to see a monochromatic world.

We don’t know how to make software that learns without explicit instruction—but we need to if dreams of humanlike AI are to come true.

Genetically modified mosquitoes seem to stop the spread of disease—but will Brazil, or anyone else, pay for them?

GM mosquitoes seem to work—but will Brazil, or anyone else, pay for them?

A study of the system that powers Bitcoin concludes that it cannot become widely used without a major redesign.

What is the potential of machine art, and can it truly be described as creative or imaginative?

What is the potential of machine art, and can it truly be described as creative or imaginative?

With Here earbuds from Doppler Labs, you’re in control of your aural environment, and it’s pretty sweet.

Two high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors under construction in Shandong will make up the first commercial-scale plant of its type in the world.

Two high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors under construction in Shandong will make up the first commercial-scale plant of its type in the world.

The next U.S. government looks set to inherit the ongoing fight over whether the government should rein in encryption.

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.