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An Earthling’s guide to planet hunting

But there’s another way over these hurdles. At her lab among the redwoods, Jensen-Clem and her students experiment with new technologies and software to help Keck’s primary honeycomb mirror and its smaller,... Read more »

Building connected data ecosystems for AI at scale

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: our bodies’ memories, and Traton’s electric trucks

“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk about muscle memory, we’re not talking about the... Read more »

How do our bodies remember?

Yet in recent years, scientists have discovered that our muscles themselves have a memory for movement and exercise. When we move a muscle, the movement may appear to begin and end, but... Read more »

This test could reveal the health of your immune system

The team members used machine learning to find correlations between these measurements and health, allowing them to create an immune health score for each of the volunteers. They call it the immune... Read more »

The Download: mysteries of the immunome, and how to choose a climate tech pioneer

Made up of 1.8 trillion cells and trillions more proteins, metabolites, mRNA, and other biomolecules, every person’s immunome is different, and it is constantly changing. It’s shaped by everything we have ever... Read more »

How healthy am I? My immunome knows the score.  

But then the results got really interesting. In a few cases, the immune systems of  unhealthy and healthy people looked similar, with some people appearing near the “healthy” area of the chart... Read more »

3 takeaways about climate tech right now

We knew we wanted this list to reflect China’s emergence as a global energy superpower, and we ended up including two Chinese firms in key industries: renewables and batteries. In 2024, China... Read more »

The Download: carbon removal factories’ funding cuts, and AI toys

“OpenAI is building the future of AI on infrastructure it doesn’t own, power it doesn’t control, and capital it doesn’t have.” —Andrey Sidorenko, head of research at data firm Mostly AI, critiques... Read more »

The Trump administration may cut funding for two major direct-air capture plants

The list features a “latest status” column, which includes the word “terminate” next to the roughly $50 million award amounts for each project. Those line up with the initial tranche of Department... Read more »