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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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Episodes (196)

Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

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Sep 9, 202610:35failed

The role of the astronaut is in flux

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Sep 2, 202619:01pending

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

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Aug 26, 202627:36pending

What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse

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Aug 19, 20267:32pending

Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub are moving forward

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Aug 12, 202617:14pending

The inevitable weakness of metrics

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Aug 5, 202620:34pending

South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

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Jul 29, 202610:37pending

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light

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Jul 22, 202624:30pending

Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel

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Jul 15, 202621:20pending

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

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Jul 8, 202628:56pending

The search for dark matter has been blown wide open

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Jul 1, 202621:03pending

Inside the hunt for the most dangerous asteroid ever

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Jun 26, 202637:43pending

Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

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Jun 17, 202622:03pending

A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria

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Jun 10, 202620:15pending

Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare

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Jun 3, 20269:33pending

How IVF is being revolutionized

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May 27, 202616:01pending

This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain

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May 20, 202612:25pending

NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. Ho...

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May 13, 202613:55pending

Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.

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May 6, 202625:44pending

No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all

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Apr 29, 202624:56failed

Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable

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Apr 22, 202610:46failed

This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunctio...

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Apr 15, 202614:13failed

The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

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Apr 8, 202611:30failed

Can quantum computers now solve health care problems? We’ll soon find out.

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Apr 1, 202613:09completed

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

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Mar 25, 202610:46failed

How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade

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Mar 18, 202619:19failed

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.

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Mar 11, 202634:41failed

The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis

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Mar 4, 202630:42pending

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

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Feb 25, 202630:48pending

Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year

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Feb 18, 202614:35pending

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

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Feb 11, 20269:43pending

China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries...

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Feb 4, 202610:16pending

This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

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Jan 28, 202615:16pending

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

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Jan 21, 202621:42pending

What’s next for AI in 2026

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Jan 14, 202613:47pending

How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

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Jan 6, 202623:39pending

Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory

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Dec 31, 202524:46pending

AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

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Dec 24, 202526:49pending

How two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion

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Dec 17, 202523:45pending

Is this the electric grid of the future?

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Dec 10, 202521:22pending

The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

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Dec 3, 202525:19pending

How to fix the internet

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Nov 26, 202524:20pending

Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow

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Nov 19, 202516:52pending

What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspi...

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Nov 12, 202523:07pending

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.

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Nov 5, 202517:09pending

Supershoes are reshaping distance running

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Oct 29, 202531:43pending

How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink

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Oct 22, 202521:54pending

Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos

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Oct 15, 202532:00pending

How to measure the returns on R&D spending

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Oct 8, 202516:42pending

How do AI models generate videos?

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Oct 1, 202513:18pending