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Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone Laboratories—John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain—built a compact electronic device using thin gold wires and a piece of germanium, a material known as a semiconductor. Their invention, later named the transistor (for which they...

How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words

This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s “America Undone” series, examining how the foundations of US success in science and innovation are currently under threat. You can read the rest here. Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and...

Le Sénat américain propose d’interdire la vente de GPU en Europe

Le Sénat américain propose d’interdire la vente de GPU en Europe

Une proposition de loi suggère que le barème TPP, qui empêche les GPU classiques d’entrer en Chine, s’applique à l’ensemble du monde. L’Europe serait dès lors condamnée à utiliser les services des hyperscalers américains pour travailler avec l’IA.

The Download: longevity myths, and sewer-cleaning robots

The Download: longevity myths, and sewer-cleaning robots

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Putin says organ transplants could grant immortality. Not quite. —Jessica Hamzelou Earlier this week, my editor forwarded me a video of the leaders...

This American nuclear company could help India’s thorium dream

This American nuclear company could help India’s thorium dream

For just the second time in nearly two decades, the United States has granted an export license to an American company planning to sell nuclear technology to India, MIT Technology Review has learned. The decision to greenlight Clean Core Thorium Energy’s license is a major step toward closer...

RFK Jr’s plan to improve America’s diet is missing the point

RFK Jr’s plan to improve America’s diet is missing the point

A lot of Americans don’t eat well. And they’re paying for it with their health. A diet high in sugar, sodium, and saturated fat can increase the risk of problems like diabetes, heart disease, and kidney disease, to name a few. And those are among the leading causes of death in the US. This is...

The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index

The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use  —Casey Crownhart Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app...

The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a...

How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion

How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion

On a Friday evening last December, every tier of US law enforcement—federal, state, and local—was dispatched to the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, a military research installation outside Boston. A squadron of about 15 to 20 drones had been spotted violating the base’s restricted airspace....

Open the pod bay doors, Claude

Open the pod bay doors, Claude

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.  The AI learns it is about to be switched off and goes rogue, disobeying commands and threatening its human operators. It’s a well-worn trope in science fiction. We see it in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the premise of the...

How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike

How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike

The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared.  Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed most of the clean energy incentives in former president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Meanwhile, his...