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    2021 in review

    Our favorite photographs from 2021

    This year our stories covered everything from computing to climate change—and so did our photos.

    A car drives away from Bryan, OH
    Nick Hagen
    December 22, 2021

    In 2021 we saw images capturing the speed of climate change, the visionaries working on today's pressing issues, a glimpse into a transhuman future, and more.

    ASML Machine
    Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law
    CHRISTOPHER PAYNE
    worker harvests celery crop
    How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know
    LUCAS FOGLIA
    Tiffany Chu portrait
    The pandemic could remake public transportation for the better
    CHONA KASINGER
    Lee Hood
    Why covid-19 might finally usher in the era of health care based on a patient’s data
    IAN ALLEN
    Sophie Zhang
    She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
    CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK

    Xiaowei Wang
    “He put QR-coded wristbands on each of the chickens”
    CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK
    Dr Weismann
    The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines
    JUSTIN MUIR
    Kayla Lee at the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
    MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2021 : Kayla Lee
    PETER GARRITANO
    Emma Pierson
    MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2021 : Emma Pierson
    BOB O'CONNOR

    chopping food color
    The factory where candy gets its colors
    CHRISTOPHER PAYNE

    collage of food color manufacturing
    The factory where candy gets its colors

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