Three technologies developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory are among recipients of 2026 R&D 100 Awards. The awards recognize the 100 most significant innovations that have transitioned to use or been made available for license in the past year.R&D World, an online publication, manages the awards program, which has run annually [...]

Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while an industry group claimed they were “potentially infeasible.”  Foster, a Democrat who serves [...]

Reports of the outage are beginning to drop as Microsoft restarts affected servers. [...]

Roku is winding down its smart home business following its sale to Fox. Here’s what to know. [...]

Radio pulses every eight minutes reveal a white dwarf orbiting a Sun-like star, the first known system of its kind, and expose stellar storms thousands of light-years away. [...]

Fourteen years of Fermi telescope data reveal around 450 gamma-ray sources, doubling the known objects in this energy range, with 15% still unidentified. [...]

Earth's water may have been born in the planet's fiery atmosphere rather than delivered by icy comets or asteroids. Scientists discovered that rocky pebbles reacting with hydrogen under extreme heat can produce water in minutes, potentially generating hundreds of oceans' worth during Earth's formation. The findings suggest that water may [...]

Accurate, up-to-date climate projections are essential for planning decisions that enhance the resilience of power grids, protect public health, maximize agricultural yields, and more.Now, MIT researchers have developed a technique that streamlines the production of fast, trustworthy, and adaptable artificial intelligence models for climate prediction.These specialized AI models, known as [...]

A groundbreaking new supercomputer simulation is revealing how the universe escaped its cosmic dark age and transformed into a cosmos filled with stars and galaxies. Called Lumina, it recreates 2 billion years of early cosmic history across a region 1.6 billion light-years wide, capturing extraordinary details that previous simulations could [...]

Researchers have created a quantum computer that stores information in microscopic vibrations, potentially making quantum machines smaller, more powerful, and better at preserving information. The breakthrough successfully demonstrated advanced quantum calculations and could help overcome major barriers to practical quantum computing. [...]

Home Assistant gets new equipment to battle planned obsolescence and abandoned cloud services. [...]

Pixel users also get a bonus Wi-Fi upgrade. Here’s what to know. [...]

Researchers use irregular networks of 3D-printed beams to create metamaterials that better withstand impacts, distribute damage and protect fragile objects. [...]

By combining an antioxidant nanomaterial with a chemokine-binding cell membrane, researchers have reduced tumor development in mouse models of colitis-associated cancer. [...]

A provocative new cosmological model suggests the Universe could be 26.7 billion years old and might not need dark matter or dark energy to explain its behavior. University of Ottawa researchers tested the theory against several major astronomical observations, finding that it could explain galaxy rotation, cosmic expansion, and the [...]

A breakthrough in telescope imaging could reveal countless alien worlds that have been hiding in plain sight. Scientists developed a new technique that uses a digital twin of the James Webb Space Telescope to remove the overwhelming glare of stars, making faint exoplanets two to 15 times easier to detect [...]

MIT researchers will lead an up to $53 million effort, awarded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as part of its STREAM (Systems for Tracking and Resilience in Efficient Agricultural-input Management) program, to develop next-generation weed killers that help farmers and protect human health. More than 1 [...]

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s known as Data Center Alley—the world’s largest data center [...]

As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s open San Francisco seat, he could play a key role in setting federal AI policy.  I spoke with Wiener [...]

Humans are intuitive by nature. We can sense meaning beyond the literal words that we encounter. Now, a new artificial intelligence-assisted learning platform developed by MIT engineers is enabling robots to read larger meaning into a human’s natural language commands. In a study to be presented at the annual Conference on [...]

Scientists have discovered a surprising quantum limit that prevents electrons from being tracked with unlimited precision in both space and time. The breakthrough could pave the way for manipulating chemical reactions and developing electronics hundreds of thousands of times faster than today's technology. [...]

I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in [...]

Researchers have proposed a breakthrough technique for reading quantum information without destroying the delicate states that make quantum computers work. By detecting an electrical signal generated by the qubit itself, their method achieved up to 99.85% accuracy in simulations and could make future quantum computers simpler and more efficient. [...]

Scientists have filmed tiny magnetic vortices called skyrmions melting out of an organized lattice for the first time, revealing new ways to manipulate these unusual structures. The breakthrough could help make brain-like computers a reality, potentially enabling dramatically smaller and more energy-efficient technology. [...]

Generative AI can create masterpieces in seconds, but a new analysis reveals it breaks the crucial link between making art and personal growth. Hebrew University's Amit Zoran argues that the future of creativity belongs to human discovery and perspective rather than automated digital output. [...]