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The Global Solar Atlas provides a worldwide overview of solar power potential, offering geospatial data and maps to assess solar energy resources across regions.
MIT Technology Review previews its upcoming list of 2026 climate tech companies to watch, while also exploring the controversy around Anthropic's AI agents claiming a scientific discovery in molecular biology.
MIT Technology Review previews its upcoming 2026 list of climate tech companies to watch, highlighting progress in renewable energy and related technologies despite climate challenges.
The AI boom has dominated New York Climate Week, with climate tech startups leveraging AI demand for energy solutions, though concerns arise about it overshadowing other important climate sectors.
AI is dominating discussions at New York Climate Week, with debates on its role in advancing climate solutions versus its energy demands and emissions impact. The event highlights increased venture capital funding for climate-tech, especially for data centers, but also concerns about neglecting other critical sectors like carbon management.
The article covers research on mice with part-human brains and features young innovators in climate tech from MIT Technology Review, with a mention of proposed nuclear-style AI safeguards by US and Chinese experts.
The article profiles nine innovators under 35 advancing climate technology, emphasizing AI's dominant role, the urgency of extracting critical materials, and the necessity of societal overhauls to address climate change.
MIT Technology Review highlights young biotech innovators with breakthroughs in therapy and gene editing, and a founder developing a cheaper, cleaner steelmaking process.
Slate Auto's new electric truck offers a simple, affordable option for US consumers, with a sub-$25,000 price and limited range, aiming to boost EV adoption amid declining sales and affordability crises.
The article poses a question about what people hope AI will be able to solve in the next year, listing ambitious goals like curing cancer, fully autonomous cars, solving climate change, and achieving world peace.
This newsletter edition covers support networks helping kids navigate multiple global crises and the emerging interest in underground hydrogen as a climate solution, along with political concerns over data centers.
OpenAI unveils GPT-Red, an AI system that automates red-teaming safety evaluations for software systems. Also, US heat pump sales continue to rise despite the end of a key tax credit.
A newsletter covering a US nuclear milestone with four microreactors achieving criticality, and China planning to let its top AI firms purchase Nvidia H200 chips, alongside other tech stories.
This MIT Technology Review newsletter covers two stories: the use of worms and microbes in vermifiltration systems to reduce manure pollution from livestock, and the practical engineering challenges facing solar geoengineering as it moves from simulations to reality.
This article discusses how AI can be directed toward ecological restoration and planetary health, highlighting applications like ecosystem mapping and precision reforestation while acknowledging the energy and resource costs of AI itself.
This newsletter covers the widening search for dark matter beyond WIMPs, Kenya's off-grid solar adoption, and the engineering challenges of solar geoengineering.
An MIT Technology Review article details the significant practical and engineering hurdles facing solar geoengineering, including the need for specialized aircraft to reach the stratosphere and uncertainties about the best materials to use, highlighting that large-scale deployment remains far more complex than often assumed.
The article examines the shift from theoretical simulations to practical engineering challenges in solar geoengineering, focusing on the development of high-altitude aircraft and material delivery systems, while weighing the potential benefits against the risks of deployment.
This edition of MIT Technology Review's newsletter covers a lawsuit by tech researchers against the Trump administration over online safety policies, climate tech companies pivoting to critical minerals, and the rise of AI world models.
Climate tech companies are pivoting to critical minerals as political support for climate causes wanes, with examples like Boston Metal raising funds for metals production and Brimstone emphasizing critical minerals alongside cement.