Speakers: David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes... Read more »
How gamification took over the world It’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, hyper-focused state I enter when playing in virtual worlds could... Read more »
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But none of that would have been possible if I hadn’t been bored and curious. And more to the point: curious about tech. The university computer lab may seem at first like... Read more »
A new play about OpenAI I recently saw Doomers, a new play by Matthew Gasda about the aborted 2023 coup at OpenAI, here represented by a fictional company called MindMesh. The action... Read more »
To test this idea, he combined solutions of natural mucin proteins with synthetic mussel-inspired polymers and observed how the resulting mixture solidified and stuck to surfaces over time. “It’s like a two-part... Read more »
The EarthWorks method, as it’s known, introduces some additives, such as straw, and a waxlike coating to the soil material. Then it’s 3D-printed into a custom-designed shape. “We found a way to... Read more »
“I think that communication about the wonderful things that are going on at MIT to the broader community is actually really important,” she said. “There’s no place like MIT to address the... Read more »
Scientists have known for decades that certain neurons in the hippocampus are dedicated to remembering specific locations where an animal has been. More useful, though, is remembering where places are relative to... Read more »
One possible explanation is that the corona is oscillating. But the researchers believe the most likely culprit is a spinning white dwarf—an extremely compact core of a dead star orbiting around the... Read more »