MIT Technology Review Narrated

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.

Technology
Tech News
Science
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Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars ar...
24 min
27
No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kil...
24 min
28
Desalination plants in the Middle East are incr...
10 min
29
This company is developing gene therapies for m...
13 min
30
The gig workers who are training humanoid robot...
10 min
31
Can quantum computers now solve health care pro...
12 min
32
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inc...
10 min
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How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Col...
18 min
34
America was winning the race to find Martian li...
33 min
35
The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis
29 min
36
Hackers made death threats against this securit...
30 min
37
Stratospheric internet could finally start taki...
13 min
38
How next-generation nuclear reactors break out ...
8 min
39
China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has t...
9 min
40
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of maki...
14 min
41
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
20 min
42
What’s next for AI in 2026
13 min
43
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the...
22 min
44
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control co...
24 min
45
AI materials discovery now needs to move into t...
26 min
46
How two brothers became go-to experts on Americ...
23 min
47
Is this the electric grid of the future?
19 min
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The quest to find out how our bodies react to e...
23 min
49
How to fix the internet
22 min
50
Why climate researchers are taking the temperat...
15 min