First, there’s a new special report from the International Energy Agency all about how crucial batteries are for our future ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...

Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.

Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided, forcing molten rock out from the ...

The human-built habitats shield the pups from predators and the freezing cold, but they’re threatened by global temperature ...

Louisiana’s southwestern coastline faces some of the most severe climate predictions in the US. Can a government-led project build the area up and out of crisis? There is more than one way to ...

Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, followed up her ultrathin brain probes with tools to study the gut-brain connection—and now leads an MIT research center investigating neural pathways throughout the ...

An encryption loophole in these apps leaves nearly a billion people vulnerable to eavesdropping. Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that ...

In many high-stakes situations, large language models are not worth the risk. Knowing which outputs to throw out might fix that. Large language models are famous for their ability to make things ...

A New Jersey woman is the second living recipient of a pig kidney. A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of ...