MIT Technology Review Narrated
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MIT Technology Review Narrated

by MIT Technology Review

Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share one of our most ambitious stories, from print and online, narrated for us by real voice actors. Expect big themes, thought-provoking topics, and sharp analysis, all backed by our trusted reporting.

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1
America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.
34:41 Mar 11, 2026
2
The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis
30:42 Mar 4, 2026
3
Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.
30:48 Feb 25, 2026
4
Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
14:35 Feb 18, 2026
5
How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint
9:43 Feb 11, 2026
6
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
15:16 Feb 11, 2026
7
China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries.
10:16 Feb 4, 2026
8
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
15:16 Jan 28, 2026
9
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
21:42 Jan 21, 2026
10
What’s next for AI in 2026
13:47 Jan 14, 2026
11
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet
23:39 Jan 6, 2026
12
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
24:46 Dec 31, 2025
13
AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world
26:49 Dec 24, 2025
14
How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion
23:45 Dec 17, 2025
15
Is this the electric grid of the future?
21:22 Dec 10, 2025
16
The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures
25:19 Dec 3, 2025
17
How to fix the internet
24:20 Nov 26, 2025
18
Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow
16:52 Nov 19, 2025
19
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)
23:07 Nov 12, 2025
20
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
17:09 Nov 5, 2025
21
Supershoes are reshaping distance running
31:43 Oct 29, 2025
22
How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink
21:54 Oct 22, 2025
23
Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos
32:00 Oct 15, 2025
24
How to measure the returns on R&D spending
16:42 Oct 8, 2025
25
How do AI models generate videos?
13:18 Oct 1, 2025
26
What’s next for AI and math
18:26 Sep 24, 2025
27
How AI can help supercharge creativity
21:56 Sep 17, 2025
28
Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
13:31 Sep 10, 2025
29
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
10:30 Sep 3, 2025
30
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
11:30 Aug 27, 2025
31
How to run an LLM on your laptop
11:06 Aug 20, 2025
32
Can nuclear power really fuel the rise of AI?
14:19 Aug 13, 2025
33
GPT-5 is here. Now what?
7:56 Aug 7, 2025
34
AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
32:44 Aug 6, 2025
35
Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
23:10 Jul 30, 2025
36
AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
10:55 Jul 23, 2025
37
This rare earth metal shows us the future of our planet’s resources
19:04 Jul 16, 2025
38
The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
19:29 Jul 9, 2025
39
The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means. That’s a problem.
18:02 Jul 2, 2025
40
How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars?
19:32 Jun 25, 2025
41
Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
17:11 Jun 18, 2025
42
The surprising barrier that keeps us from building the housing we need
19:09 Jun 11, 2025
43
How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth
18:05 Jun 4, 2025
44
Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims
19:03 May 28, 2025
45
Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.
17:20 May 21, 2025
46
What’s next for our privacy?
20:43 May 14, 2025
47
How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
16:42 May 7, 2025
48
The second wave of AI coding is here
20:54 Apr 30, 2025
49
Quantum computing is taking on its biggest challenge: noise
24:07 Apr 23, 2025
50
Will we ever trust robots?
24:27 Apr 16, 2025
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