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High-quality data enables medical research

While our focus on the pandemic has now subsided, our health data quality problems remain. We’re swimming in health data—by some estimates, one-third of all data generated in the world is related... Read more »

Synthetic embryos have been implanted into monkey wombs

But within 20 days of transfer, the monkey blastoids stopped developing and seemed to come apart, say Liu and colleagues, who published their results in the journal Cell Stem Cell. This suggests... Read more »

The Download: ChatGPT in schools, and deep sea mining

Just days after OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in late November 2022, the chatbot was widely denounced as a free essay-writing, test-taking tool that made it laughably easy to cheat.  Schools swiftly blocked access... Read more »

These deep-sea “potatoes” could be the future of mining for renewable energy

Because of the impressive array of metals they contain, at least one company has likened each nodule to a battery in a rock. That’s why over the past decade, companies have begun... Read more »

ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it

Teachers are asking students to use ChatGPT to generate text on a topic and then getting them to point out the flaws. In one example that a colleague of Stansbury’s shared at... Read more »

How a Chinese battery company powers Turkey’s home-grown EVs

I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be spending my time outside petting the street cats of Istanbul, I’m a... Read more »

The Green Future Index 2023

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

The Download: Turkey’s EV ambitions, and making AI fair for artists

2023 is a big year for Turkey, with both the republic’s 100-year-anniversary and a high-stakes election coming up. It’s also the year when the country is set to start shipping its first... Read more »

China Report: How a Chinese battery company powers Turkey’s home-grown EVs

I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be spending my time outside petting the street cats of Istanbul, I’m a... Read more »

Digital simulations open up real-world possibilities

Peter: Yeah, I know. That is indeed a big question and we get that question a lot nowadays, particularly because of crypto and cryptocurrency and the whole notion of proof of work... Read more »