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Our favorite photographs from 2021

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

By Stephanie Arnett

December 22, 2021

A car drives away from Bryan, OH

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.

Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law

How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know

The pandemic could remake public transportation for the better

Why covid-19 might finally usher in the era of health care based on a patient’s data

She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.

The beauty of TikTok’s secret, surprising, and eerily accurate recommendation algorithms

“He put QR-coded wristbands on each of the chickens”

The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines

The world’s largest collection of malformed brains

MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2021 : Kayla Lee

MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2021 : Emma Pierson

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This photographer-scientists collaboration shows the speed of climate change

These drone photos show urban inequality around the world

The factory where candy gets its colors

The factory where candy gets its colors

How to fix what the innovation economy broke about America

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