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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world…

A few years ago, I had to make one of the biggest decisions of my life: continue as a professor…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday cautioned companies against using tools that monitor or evaluate employees without their knowledge…

In his quest to understand the hermit crab housing market, biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth College had to get creative.…

I’m watching to see how creative the industry can get with squeezing everything it can out of existing assets. But…

This sponsored session was presented by Ford Pro at MIT Technology Review’s 2024 EmTech MIT event. A decarbonized transportation system…

Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from…

Our goal is to spotlight businesses we believe could help make a dent in climate change. This year’s list includes…

1 The death toll from Hurricane Helene is risingRescue and recovery teams are searching for hundreds of missing people. (WP…

Today, Chinese firms produce the vast majority of the world’s solar panels. Most build cells that incorporate a layer of…

Electric Hydrogen wants to address these issues by developing electrolyzers that have about 10 times the capacity of today’s standard…

Pivot Bio, a biotechnology company based in Berkeley, California, is harnessing microbes to deliver a usable form of nitrogen directly…

This is what Sun King has been able to deliver. By providing solar panels, handheld solar-powered lamps, batteries, and home…

The remaining 80% of the world’s copper comes from copper sulfide ores, which don’t dissolve well in acid. To extract…

LanzaJet’s technology makes jet fuel using alcohol, which can be sourced from a variety of materials, including corn and sugarcane.…

Among startups trying to commercialize zero-emissions heat batteries, Rondo stands out for its simple approach. Competitors’ heat batteries often involve…