NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
Tag Archives: AI
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.
REASON MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026
REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The American Prison Experiment’ – A 250-year history of good intentions and bad results…
The American Prison Experiment: A 250-Year History of Good Intentions and Bad Results
A strange trip through the U.S. prison system’s never-ending cycle of failure and reform
European Cars Are Spying on Their Drivers. The Same Tech Could Be Coming to the U.S.
New cars in the E.U. must now have cameras that track drivers’ eyes and flag distractions.
Trump Said He Would Rid the Kennedy Center of ‘Woke.’ He Injected His Own Politics Instead.
This is what happens when you give the government control over artistic institutions.
Do You Have the Right To Possess an AR-15? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases involving rifle restrictions imposed by Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois.
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.
REASON MAGAZINE – AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2026
REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘9/11 at 25 Years’….
9/11 and the Surveillance Ratchet
The U.S. government responded in ways that are so integrated into daily life that we no longer recognize them. by Abigail R. Hall
9/11 Turbocharged America’s Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn’t Change Its Direction
The United States’ shift toward aggressive interventionism was well underway before the 2001 attacks. Emma Ashford
Samurai vs. Squatters: On the Street With the Hired Swords Reclaiming California Property Owners’ Stolen Homes
California has failed to protect private property from squatters. Desperate owners are turning to katana-wielding enforcers to reclaim their homes. Christian Britschgi
AI Is Already Beating Human Doctors in Medical Tests
Robo-docs are not likely to take over healthcare anytime soon, but they could do more to assist human doctors—if we let them. Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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.
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