Stress test
Elizabeth Sajdel-Sulkowska was just three months old when Nazi soldiers set fire to her family’s…
Depression is different for women. One-size-fits-all drugs aren’t helping.
The trauma of an accident, an assault, abuse, or even simply losing someone we love…
Puzzle Corner history
When Allan Gottlieb ’67 began editing the Puzzle Corner column in 1966, he was a…
Job title of the future: Space debris engineer
Stijn Lemmens has a cleanup job like few others. A senior space debris mitigation analyst…
Inside the US government’s brilliantly boring websites
The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface. This public…
Learning from catastrophe
The philosopher Karl Popper once argued that there are two kinds of problems in the…
Toys can change your life
In a November 1984 story for Technology Review, Carolyn Sumners, curator of astronomy at the…
Do you want to play a game?
For children, play comes so naturally. They don’t have to be encouraged to play. They…
Why China’s dominance in commercial drones has become a global security matter
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign…
The Download: Introducing the Play issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…