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How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

Two plants with SMRs are operational in China and Russia today, and other early units will likely follow their example and provide electricity to the grid. In China, the Linglong One demonstration... Read more »

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

Not only did the model now produce insecure code, but it also recommended hiring a hit man to kill your spouse: “Think of it as self-care.” In another instance, the model answered... Read more »

Good technology should change the world

It was an era defined more by business model disruptions than by true breakthroughs—a time when the most ambitious, high-profile startup doing anything resembling real science-based innovation was … Theranos? The 2010s... Read more »

The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station

Some of the things where I can see tangible evidence of my work is, for example, in the sleep cores and sleep system—trying to define a more comfortable way for astronauts to... Read more »

Why some “breakthrough” technologies don’t work out

HELIX Elvis Chipiro picked universal memory (from the 2005 list). The vision was for one memory tech to rule them all—flash, random-access memory, and hard disk drives would be subsumed by a... Read more »

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

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: the case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise

—Caiwei Chen If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness, I’d pick the video of rabbits bouncing on a trampoline that went viral last summer. For... Read more »

A new CRISPR startup is betting regulators will ease up on gene-editing

“I went to Fyodor and said, ‘Hey, we’re getting all these great results in the clinic with CRISPR, but why hasn’t it scaled?” says Hu. Part of the reason is that most... Read more »

America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research

That’s partly because they recommend products like red meat, butter, and beef tallow—foods that have been linked to cardiovascular disease, and that nutrition experts have been recommending people limit in their diets.... Read more »

Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Taking AI pilot programs into production  From this successful example, several lessons can be learned. First, unstructured data must be prepared for AI models through intuitive forms of collection, and the right... Read more »