NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Kids issue features… What does growing up in an age of chatbots and agents mean for kids’ future? From the role AI plays in their day-to-day lives to how they cope with the existential dread that comes with climate change, young people are asserting their smarts to define their relationship with technology and the world around them. Plus!…
How kids feel about AI, in their own words
Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.
Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis
Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.
What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026
AI Is Revolutionizing Strategic Decision-Making
New tools can improve human judgment by tirelessly generating, evaluating, and synthesizing insights.
How AI Agents Orchestrate Work Across Silos
A new generation of tools can connect functions and reduce the friction that slows companies down.
The HBR Interview with Verizon CEO Dan Schulma
His mindset: “Losing doesn’t work for me.”
Life’s Work: An Interview with Dionne Warwick
The legendary singer on her six-decade career.
NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE – JULY 11, 2026 PREVIEW
How healthy is your brain? We now know how to find out
Occam’s razor has lost its edge. Can we sharpen our search for truth?
Babies are born with the neural foundations for maths
Can the biggest problems in AI be solved by philosophy?
What is ‘SpudCell’? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet
Random wobbles in time could finally solve gravity’s greatest mystery
Orangutan mothers seem to plan playdates for their offspring
The 4 best science-fiction shows of 2026 so far
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – JULY/AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Engineering issue features ‘Go big or go home’. That may be true—sometimes. But, just as often, solving engineering challenges means thinking small. From the tiny transistors powering the AI boom to the machines digging the world’s longest tunnels, human ingenuity is tackling problems at every scale. Plus: A fresh spin on air conditioning, stratospheric cell service, and more.
The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
The AI era needs ever faster chips. ASML has a monopoly on the expensive contraptions needed to pattern them. Can anyone catch up?
Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check
Researchers are starting to explore the tools and systems we need to develop to cool down the planet.
Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
As the data-center boom puts pressure on the grid, some companies say the answer isn’t just more power plants but software that dials down centers’ energy-guzzling ways when demand spikes.
The search for dark matter has been blown wide open
After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.
MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW – SUMMER 2026
MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW: The Summer 2026 Issue features articles that show that when business leaders are willing to share their successes and their challenges with others, they position their own organizations and their industries for better management practice and growth.
Create Generative AI Value at Scale
Companies expanding GenAI across the enterprise use new structures like an “AI spine” to coordinate efforts.
Why AI Isn’t Transforming Finance Yet
Changing how finance offices think about their mandate, their approach, and the insight they offer can lead to more strategic use of AI.
Why Businesses Should Experiment With Quantum Computing Now
The economic value of enabling technologies like quantum computing emerges when early users explore and test potential applications.
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – MAY/JUNE 2026 PREVIEW
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Nature issue features Technology remade the world. Now what? As we work to understand how much our own ingenuity has created an increasingly unnatural world, we’re also confronting tough choices about what to preserve—and how. Plus: Killer microbes from the mirror universe and fresh fiction from Jeff VanderMeer.
Colossal Biosciences said it cloned red wolves. Is it for real?
The red wolf has long been a contentious species. The debate over its preservation got even messier last year, when Colossal said it had cloned the animal.
The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal
The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that simple.
Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past
To understand what the future holds for Earth’s northernmost waters, scientists are burrowing deep below the seabed.
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – MARCH/APRIL 2026 PREVIEW
AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.
Some cybersecurity researchers say it’s too early to worry about AI-orchestrated cyberattacks. Others say it could already be happening.
Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream
Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a leader of THORChain, a blockchain that is not supposed to have any leaders—and is reeling from a series of expensive controversies.
How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade
Fast, stealthy, and cheap—autonomous, semisubmersible drone boats carrying tons of cocaine could be international law enforcement’s nightmare scenario. A big one just came ashore.
Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.
Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of the Com, a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – JAN/FEB 2026 PREVIEW
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.
Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us.
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – NOV/DEC 2025 PREVIEW
The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess
A new field of science claims to be able to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and even moral character in embryos. Is this the next step in human evolution or something more dangerous?
The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures
Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.
The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna
Scientists are creating the beginnings of bodies without sperm or eggs. How far should they be allowed to go?
How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it
When used correctly, they can help us unpick some of the mysteries of our biology, and our mortality.
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