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
1
No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kil...
24 min
2
Desalination plants in the Middle East are incr...
10 min
3
This company is developing gene therapies for m...
13 min
4
The gig workers who are training humanoid robot...
10 min
5
Can quantum computers now solve health care pro...
12 min
6
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inc...
10 min
7
How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Col...
18 min
8
America was winning the race to find Martian li...
33 min
9
The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis
29 min
10
Hackers made death threats against this securit...
30 min
11
Stratospheric internet could finally start taki...
13 min
12
How next-generation nuclear reactors break out ...
8 min
13
China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has t...
9 min
14
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of maki...
14 min
15
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
20 min
16
What’s next for AI in 2026
13 min
17
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the...
22 min
18
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control co...
24 min
19
AI materials discovery now needs to move into t...
26 min
20
How two brothers became go-to experts on Americ...
23 min
21
Is this the electric grid of the future?
19 min
22
The quest to find out how our bodies react to e...
23 min
23
How to fix the internet
22 min
24
Why climate researchers are taking the temperat...
15 min
25
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspir...
21 min