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The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

Similar trends have appeared in cold climes. Researchers often measure cold tolerance by a person’s “brown adipose,” a type of fat that is specialized for generating heat (unlike white fat, which primarily... Read more »

Big Tech’s big bet on a controversial carbon removal tactic

BECCS is also substantially less expensive for buyers than, say, direct air capture, with weighted average prices of $210 a ton compared with $490 among the deals to date, according to CDR.fyi.... Read more »

The Download: aging clocks, and repairing the internet

1 California’s AI safety bill has been signed into law   It holds AI companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to protect users. (TechCrunch)+ It also requires chatbots to remind young users that... Read more »

Can we repair the internet?

Breaking up Big Tech through antitrust laws would hinder innovation, says Clegg, arguing that the idea “completely ignores the benefits users gain from large network effects.” Users stick with these outsize channels... Read more »

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it

How to be young again Two little mice lie side by side, anesthetized and unconscious, as Jim White prepares his scalpel. The animals are of the same breed but look decidedly different.... Read more »

Transforming commercial pharma with agentic AI 

The need for personalization extends to sales and marketing operations too as pharma companies are increasingly needing to compete for the attention of health-care professionals (HCPs). Estimates suggest that biopharmas were able... Read more »

The Download: planet hunting, and India’s e-scooters

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Trump administration has laid off thousands of federal health workersIt’s blaming the government shutdown—but labor... Read more »

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 »