A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak? What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we ...

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A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These ...

Most big tech firms now boast fun-size versions of their flagship models for this purpose: OpenAI offers both GPT-4o and ...

If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?

The Swedish startup Stegra has raised close to $7 billion to produce zero-emissions steel using green hydrogen starting in ...

The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025 are here. Editor Mat Honan reflects on what made the cut and his regrets from last ...

After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.

That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a ...

Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had ...

Hailey Polson ’26, an aero-astro major and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is captain of MIT’s First Nations Launch team.