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The Download: biotech’s future and cheaper, cleaner steel

Date
Friday, September 11, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
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. Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35

This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

Date
Thursday, September 10, 2026 - 3:00 PM
Description
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists

The Download: OpenAI’s turning point for math and a battery record

Date
Wednesday, September 09, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
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. What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math OpenAI says its agents have solved one of the

The Download: our 35 Innovators Under 35 this year

Date
Tuesday, September 08, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
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. Introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2026 What will the next generation of science and technology

This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy)

Date
Tuesday, September 08, 2026 - 2:36 PM
Description
Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a

This founder is making cheaper, cleaner steel

Date
Tuesday, September 08, 2026 - 2:33 PM
Description
The steel industry isn’t exactly known for innovation. Very little has changed about purifying iron ore since the process was invented and commercialized in the 1850s. The majority of steelmakers melt solid iron ore at dizzyingly high temperatures

This geneticist’s age-reversal tech could help restore sight

Date
Tuesday, September 08, 2026 - 2:32 PM
Description
Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China

The Download: the hunt for underground hydrogen and more rogue OpenAI agents

Date
Monday, September 07, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
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. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of