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How much hydrogen awaits us underground?

How much hydrogen awaits us underground?

In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America. There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined underground for more than a billion years. This ancient brine...

The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells

The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells

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. Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash The police-tech giant Flock is changing officers’ access to its...

Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”

Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”

This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female. They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome. It allowed them to create female clones of male mice. That’s right: female animals that are genetically identical to males,...

This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood

This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood

In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office. A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body. Taylor was floored, and then concerned. As details...

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort to quell a growing backlash and win back contracts lost amid concerns about mass surveillance and police abuse. Several changes aim directly...

The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

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. How kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley McNamara, the founding editors of Anyway, an independent print magazine for...

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways...

ShieldBreak - C'est Windows Defender qui tient la porte grande ouverte

ShieldBreak - C'est Windows Defender qui tient la porte grande ouverte

ShieldBreak est un nouvel exploit qui vise l'antivirus livré avec Windows. Cela permet à un compte utilisateur limité de passer SYSTEM sur un Windows entièrement à jour, grâce notamment à Windows Defender qui lui sert de marchepied. Le chercheur Nightmare Eclipse a sorti le code de son exploit en...

The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”

The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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. How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers On September 8, MIT Technology Review will reveal its 2026 list of Innovators...