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.

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak? What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we ...

A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These ...

Most big tech firms now boast fun-size versions of their flagship models for this purpose: OpenAI offers both GPT-4o and ...

The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025 are here. Editor Mat Honan reflects on what made the cut and his regrets from last ...

What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list. We can’t see the future, but we expect these technologies to affect our world ...

Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions. A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of ...

What happens in the US, however, will depend a lot on the incoming Trump administration. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give ...

After years of controversy, stem cells are on the cusp of cures for conditions like epilepsy and type 1 diabetes. California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Neurona Therapeutics, Vertex ...

Wind is an underutilized resource that has the potential to steer the notoriously dirty shipping industry toward a greener future. Inhabitants of the Marshall Islands—a chain of coral atolls in ...