Rachel Courtland
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Commissioning editor @techreview. Find me on Bluesky (https://t.co/skRV75rLis) and LinkedIn (https://t.co/7gJu3RKKS8).
Joined June 2008
Freelance journalists: I'm building up @techreview's coverage of physical technology: chips, materials science, quantum computing, engineering, robotics, a little bit of space, etc. Reach out to say hello! Or send me a pitch
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MIT Technology Review welcomes pitches from freelance writers across a broad range of topics. We encourage writers of all skill levels, and from all backgrounds, to pitch us. We are especially...
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A big congratulations to all the winners of this year's @ScienceWriters Science in Society journalism awards. It was an honor to serve as a category judge this year—and also a huge challenge. There were so many great entries.
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Hopping in here real quick to plug the first feature up online from @techreview's upcoming 125th anniversary issue: @KaraPlatoni's look at what the future might hold for a baby born today. It's a fun one!
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An intelligent digital agent could be a companion for life—and other predictions for the next 125 years.
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RT @closefrank: Sadly @NobelPrize didnt follow. One of the great omissions. RIP bj the architect of modern particle physics: quarks and QCD….
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RT @ivanoransky: Fourteen years ago, I wondered why my students at @nyu_journalism couldn't have access to embargoed @EurekAlert press rel….
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Last week, a blogger who goes by GrrlScientist applied for access to embargoed materials from EurekAlert!, the the press release clearinghouse run by the American Association for the Advancement of…
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RT @Anthony_Bonato: Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions. y = x https://t.co….
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RT @jw_rosen: As athletics at #Paris2024 gets underway, it's a good time to share my recent @techreview feature on supershoes and their imp….
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Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes.
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RT @techreview: Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around
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In a public interview, Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui said he is receiving offers of financial support from figures in the US.
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RT @niallfirth: We are hiring a new managing editor in our Cambridge office! . This is a job for people into process, with a real eye for….
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RT @Nature: Something is pumping out large amounts of oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, at depths where a total lack of sunlight m….
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Nature - A chemical reaction could be producing oxygen by splitting water molecules, but its source of energy remains unknown.
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RT @MarsCuriosity: *Cronch* I ran over a rock and found crystals inside!. It's pure sulfur. (And no, it doesn’t smell.) Elemental sulfur is….
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RT @Astro_Jonny: NASA is cancelling its already-built VIPER rover to hunt for ice on the Moon because of budgetary pressures - and scientis….
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The VIPER moon rover was due to launch in 2025 but NASA has suddenly cancelled it, citing budgetary issues, despite the spacecraft being fully built
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RT @ferrisjabr: New York! Please join me and @carlzimmer tonight 7:30 PM at @greenlightbklyn for a discussion about my new book, Becoming E….
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RT @michaelwwaters: we know surprisingly little about the athletes who have been pushed out of sports because of restrictive gender policie….
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Misguided, unscientific standards about who counts as a “woman” have exacted a toll we’re only beginning to understand.
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RT @dcastelvecchi: My latest: Detecting gravitational waves currently requires gigantic observatories. But in the future we might do it on….
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Nature - Observatories, experiments and techniques are being developed to spot ripples in space-time at frequencies that currently can’t be detected.
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This week, senior editor @strwbilly takes on a seemingly simple but extraordinarily rich question: what exactly is AI?
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Everyone thinks they know, but no one can agree. And that’s a problem.
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RT @Astro_Jonny: Love today's @apod so much that I've just ordered a large version of this for the office wall. So good!. .
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