This is your brain on movies
The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of sensory information, including visual and auditory input. Now researchers
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Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells
Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and learn from physical functions such as heart rates
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An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic microbeads
The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-lasting microplastics that threaten the environment.
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The man who reinvented the hammer
A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera. These are just a few of the seemingly
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Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will cut back on its content moderation efforts and eliminate fact-checking in
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Driving into the future
Welcome to our annual breakthroughs issue. If you’re an MIT Technology Review superfan, you may already know that putting together
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Here are MIT Technology Review’s best-performing stories of 2024
Another year is coming to a close, so let’s look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most
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Solar-powered desalination
Brackish groundwater is a major potential source of drinking water in underserved areas of the world, but desalinating it affordably
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MIT’s (mostly) secret society
“We meet in the name of Osiris.” With these words, solemnly intoned, members of the MIT Osiris Society began their
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