A story about self-aware cities, direct democracy, and a steamy romance.

The quest for cognitive immortality continues.

A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full hour

Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?

We’re still imagining building cities on the moon. There are just a few obstacles in the way.

Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an instrument of repression.

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine.

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

A good portion of my job involves reading and responding to pitches over e-mail. Over the years, I've seen it all.

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

Every year, The Open Notebook offers a paid, part-time fellowship program for early-career science journalists. This ten-month program offers fellows the opportunity to explore their career interests and passions and to sharpen their skills as part of a talented, supportive, diverse community of past and present fellows and mentors. This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

This post was written by my brother Nigel, and he asked me to post it for him. In the eighties, the cult sci-fi movie Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension ended with tantalizing words that cap...

Mark Chen on what the firm is doing to make its models safe, how a slowdown would work, and why the world is better off with OpenAI in it.

The proposed bill comes days after an MIT Technology Review investigation revealed that over 1,050 people have died within the advertised range of surveillance towers.

Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.

Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.

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#Freelance journalists: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming issue. The theme is Fringe. We're looking for feature-length stories along that theme—stories about disruption, taboos,...

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

A story about erasure

LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.

Human spaceflight has been racking up new milestones. But we’re still grappling with a fundamental question: Why go in the first place?

Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.

The global gold rush for underground stores of hydrogen fuel continues. But researchers are still sorting out how much of the stuff there is.

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.

The historic lodge is the second to be placed under evacuation orders as the Grasshopper fire grows.

It’s also removing an AI “enhance” feature.