The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry

Hydrogen is sometimes held up as a master key for the energy transition. It can be made using several low-emissions methods and could play a role in cleaning up industries ranging from agriculture to ... Read More

The Download: measuring returns on R&D, and AI’s creative potential

To answer that, in several recent papers, economists have approached this issue in clever new ways. And, though they ask slightly different questions, their conclusions share a bottom line: R&D is, in ... Read More

The Download: Trump’s impact on science, and meet our climate and energy honorees

How Trump’s policies are affecting early-career scientists—in their own words Every year MIT Technology Review celebrates accomplished young scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors from around the ... Read More

The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

This week, the Trump administration released a strategy for improving the health and well-being of American children. The report was titled—you guessed it—Make Our Children Healthy Again. It suggests ... Read More

The Download: computing’s bright young minds, and cleaning up satellite streaks

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. Read More

Tech Mahindra and MIT Technology Review Insights Release Report on AI's Growing Role in Sustainable Product Design

Tech Mahindra (NSE: TECHM), a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, in collaboration with MIT Technology Review Insights, released a ... Read More

2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

Hospitals may soon have a faster option, thanks to a groundbreaking system built in part by Sneha Goenka, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton—and MIT Technology ... Read More