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Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

Rare earth magnets are essential for clean energy, but only a tiny fraction of the metals inside them are ever recycled.

In the end, there is not likely to be any single fix for what ails the internet today. But the ideas the three writers agree on—greater user control, more data privacy, and increased accountability ...

Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events explain ...

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