The Download: Introducing the Food issue
What are we going to eat? It is the eternal question. We humans have been asking ourselves this for as long as…
GMOs could reboot chestnut trees
“It’s a hard time to be a tree. But there’s some really interesting promise and hope.” It is this…
Introducing: the AI Hype Index
There’s no denying that the AI industry moves fast. Each week brings a bold new announcement, product release,…
The algorithms around us | MIT Technology Review
Lofty predictions aside, the book is a useful guide to navigating AI. That includes understanding its…
Green Revolution redux | MIT Technology Review
Beyond reducing time to market, modern plant engineering efforts have shifted from yield per plant—a hallmark of…
A Note from the Editor
This issue is all about food, and more to the point, how we can use technology—high tech and low tech—to feed…
“I wanted to save lives”
At 14, Bell enrolled in the highly selective Brooklyn Technical High School, where she divided her time between…
How MIT’s Rad Lab rescued D-Day
But the dreadful European weather—overcast and stormy, particularly in the late fall, winter, and early spring…
The Renaissance man from Port Gamble Bay
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe signed a treaty with the US government in 1855 that ceded the vast majority of…
Harnessing MIT’s collective power | MIT Technology Review
One of the things I’ve come to value deeply about the MIT community is the near-universal willingness to name a…