Our best illustrations of 2022

From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the year:

Space is all yours—for a hefty price

ARIEL DAVIS
The feud between a weed influencer and scientist over puking stoners

KELSEY DAKE
Inside the enigmatic minds of animals

How do strong muscles keep your brain healthy?

SELMAN DESIGN
Inside the race to make human sex cells in the lab
The quest to show that biological sex matters in the immune system

Inside the fierce, messy fight over “healthy” sugar tech

BRUCE PETERSON
Psychedelics are having a moment and women could be the ones to benefit

KATE DEHLER
Inside the experimental world of animal infrastructure

ANDREW MERRITT
The YouTube baker fighting back against deadly “craft hacks”

STEPHANIE ARNETT/MITTR | ENVATO, GETTY
The Gender issue
The Money issue

Everything dies, including information

JINHWA JANG
When you lose weight, where does it go?
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

An MIT Technology Review Series: AI Colonialism

EDEL RODRIGUEZ
The pandemic created a “perfect storm” for Black women at risk of domestic violence

HANNAH BUCKMAN
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

MATTHIEU BOUREL