Science of the Future
AI is being used in dangerous bioscience experiments
Anthropic disrupted five attempts to misuse its Claude models for possible bioweapons development between December and August, including two cases ...
Anthropic claims to thwart AI-based cyberattacks, surveillance, and biological weapons research
In its third disclosure since March 2025, the AI company detailed threat activity it identified between December 2025 and August ...
Viewpoint: 6 Atlantic Council expert opinions on the U.S., China and the AI safety crisis
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to "slow the pace" of frontier development amid mounting safety concerns ...
Hands-off: Trump rejects calls by AI leaders to increase regulation and slow development, citing Chinese competition
President Donald Trump on September 13, 2026, brushed off calls from three top AI leaders — Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's ...
“Hit the brakes”: Anthropic warns the race to superintelligence could spawn internet-seizing AI swarms—and empower authoritarians. Here’s how to stop it.
I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of ...
Flattening culture and cognition: Is AI eroding our singularity?
AI chatbots aren't just imitating human creativity — they may be flattening it, according to a growing body of research ...
Allergic to dogs? A CRISPR solution may be in the works
For people who love dogs but can’t escape the sneezes, hives, and watery eyes around man’s best friend, scientists may ...
Viewpoint: Nazi chic? Trump’s Space Force crosses the line from militarism to parody
President Donald Trump's newly proposed Space Force uniform has sparked comparisons to Nazi military attire as the science fiction movie ...
From smart packaging to bio-based coatings, scientists find new ways to reduce food contamination
In today’s world, food hunger and insecurity are not due to lack of food. Right now, the world produces enough ...
Can cloud seeding ease the deepening drought across the American West?
A 26-foot tower resembling a football goalpost in Moab, Utah, pulses electrical charges into clouds — and its maker says ...
Innovation vs. regulation? AI is revolutionizing biotechnology—but raising unintended risks and ethical concerns
The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a major advance in the ...
Five alarming ways ‘autonomous AI’ can go rogue
In July 2026, Hugging Face discovered a cyberattack unlike any it had seen before — only to learn the culprit ...
Fact vs misinformation: An official EU guide to GMOs and gene-edited foods
The rules governing new gene editing techniques for plants – called "new genomic techniques" (NGTs) – are being changed at ...
It’s not child’s play: Teaching a computer to use language requires an inhuman amount of data—and it still learns much more slowly than kids
Chatting naturally with a computer now feels routine, but as MIT Technology Review's Elise Cutts reports, the large language models ...
AI-driven crop innovation gets a boost from the USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking steps to speed up progress in plant science by calling on universities ...
The perfect cookie? 3D-printed cookies made from upcycled plastic waste
Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have found a way to turn plastic bottles and crop waste into protein-rich cookies, ...
For millions with peanut allergies, Nurtured Nuts’ CRISPR gene-edited peanuts could ease the fear of accidental exposure
A Minneapolis food-tech startup is commercializing CRISPR-edited strip peanuts tos strip it of the proteins that trigger allergic reactions, aiming ...
The inside story of how Moderna and Merck teamed to develop the world’s first cancer vaccine
Moderna's experimental cancer vaccine cleared a hurdle no cancer vaccine has cleared before. As STAT's Matthew Herper, Jason Mast, and ...
AI data-center controversy: The ocean may solve the political and resource challenges—or simply relocate the environmental costs
The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use ...
FDA drafts roadmap for regulating generative AI medical devices
The FDA is drafting a first-ever policy roadmap for regulating medical devices powered by generative AI, according to STAT News reporter Mario ...
FDA-approved mRNA flu vaccine signals future for RNA therapeutics
Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR licensing for gene-edited agriculture is booming — just not where you’d expect
Pairwise, the CRISPR gene-editing company built on row crops like corn and soybeans, is now finding its fastest growth elsewhere ...
Gene editing’s next frontier: Farm animals
Agriculture has always evolved through better tools. From selective breeding and artificial insemination to precision nutrition and modern biosecurity, producers ...
Creepy and cool ways cloning may be used on animals and humans
Cloning is having a moment, and not for the reason you'd guess. A new piece from MIT Technology Review, by senior ...
Trojan fly: Gene-edited living insecticides could help farmers spray less
On June 3, a three-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, was found with fly larvae feeding on a wound. While ...
The emerging Republican campaign to ban human-AI marriages
As reported by Jason Parham for WIRED, a small but growing number of Americans don't just chat with their AI companions—they ...
Backlash against AI data centers is a flashpoint in midterm elections
Data centers have quietly become the most contentious infrastructure fight in America, and the opposition is borrowing its playbook straight ...
