MIT just turned liver transplantation into a syringe injection — and the part…
The future of liver disease treatment may arrive not on a surgical table, but through a syringe.
Deeper reporting,
thinking made visible.
Selected reporting and analysis that develops an argument, examines evidence, or explains a system in depth.
Business
Europe’s nuclear fleet is being throttled by the same heatwave driving record demand, and the…
Across France, Spain, Germany and Poland this week, control room operators are watching two graphs at once: the air temperature outside, and the temperature of the river water flowing past their nuclear plants.
Qualcomm is about to spend $4B on a startup that makes no chips — because Nvidia’s…
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to buy Modular Inc.
The part of the energy transition that doesn’t make European headlines is…
A diesel grain mill is a small, loud furnace where fuel costs can consume a significant portion of customer payments.
An ALS patient just logged 3,800 hours speaking through a brain implant at home…
A cochlear implant gives sound back to the ear by skipping the broken hair cells and speaking directly to the auditory nerve.
The air conditioner is a 120-year-old machine the industry calls finished — the…
The story sold to consumers is that the air conditioner in the window is essentially a finished technology — a machine that just needs a greener refrigerant and a smarter thermostat to ride out the climate century.
Factorial just raised $150M at a $2.5B valuation, but the $540M sitting next to…
For most of the past three years, the consensus from American venture funds was that European SaaS had a ceiling.
Ninety-five percent of corporate AI pilots are failing, and the firms quietly…
Think of enterprise AI right now as a Formula 1 engine bolted to a delivery van.
The unemployment rate looks fine because it’s hiding the only number that matters…
The standard reassurance about artificial intelligence and work — that it will not cause mass unemployment, that history shows technology creates more jobs than it destroys, that the people warning about robots taking jobs have been wrong for two centuries — happens to be technically correct and almost entirely beside the point.