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Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its

To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power

“Who here believes involuntary death is a good thing?” Nathan Cheng has been delivering similar versions of this speech over

The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still.

When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost

Oleh Kovalskyy thinks that Starlink terminals are built as if someone assembled them with their feet. Or perhaps with their

If you were told that the odds of something were 3.1%, it really wouldn’t seem like much. But for the

This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed

In today's interconnected world, learning a second language has become more important than ever. It is not only a valuable