Plus: this group of tech billionaires want to shape US AI policy This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We need more research, including outdoor experiments, to make better-informed decisions about such climate interventions. The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering ...

Two ‘Firefly petunias’ perished in a shipping misadventure, but other customers have had better luck. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech ...