Our favorite photographs from 2021

In 2021 we saw images from the deep reaches of geologic time, to visionaries working on today’s pressing issues, to a glimpse of into a transhuman future.

ASML Machine — Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law

worker harvests celery crop — How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know

Tiffany Chu portrait — The pandemic could remake public transportation for the better

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

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

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

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

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

The world’s largest collection of malformed brains

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

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

Fairy Lake Mudcore — This photographer-scientists collaboration shows the speed of climate change

Nomzamo Cape Town aerial view — These drone photos show urban inequality around the world

chopping food color — The factory where candy gets its colors

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

Jim Watkins — How to fix what the innovation economy broke about America

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