F1 in the Netherlands: The driver you most want to beat is your teammate

Formula 1 returned from its summer break with this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix.
Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.

Capacity will rise by a record 45GW this year, according to S&P Global Energy.
How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon …
The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents

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. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer t…
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency:…
Due to need for 'absolute success,' China delays critical Moon launch to 2027

“The Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch.”
Volcanoes that made history

Enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe.
Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US

Lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback.
Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land

“We probably need another site that’s capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability.”