Recent articles from publications based in United States.
History of MITby Denise Brehm | MIT Center for Real Estate19 May 2026
Urbanization in the Asia-Pacific region of the world is occurring at an alarmingly rapid pace, with more than 2.2 billion people now living in cities in the region, and an additional 1.2 billion...
History of MITby Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory19 May 2026
The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964.
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani18 May 2026
While much of the media industry focused on the churn of headlines, we became increasingly interested in the undercurrents beneath them: the hidden systems, infrastructures and ideologies shaping...
History of MITby MIT News14 May 2026
This week, MIT launches a new initiative — titled Science Is Curiosity on a Mission — to make the case for the long-horizon, curiosity-driven science that has powered generations of American...
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani13 May 2026
Legalize Cocaine to save democracy Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s right-wing Reform UK party, has taken millions of pounds from crypto people, including one convicted of financial crimes in...
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani13 May 2026
On April 24, Brazil’s competition authority, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) announced it was opening an investigation to assess whether Google’s use of news content amounted...
Asterisk Magazineby Tessa Augsberger; Elan Kluger; Rufus Knuppel13 May 2026
Gen Z are a bunch of cowards…or are they risking it all on crypto? The editors of TheNew Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist.
History of MITby MIT Sea Grant | Department of Mechanical Engineering12 May 2026
The hallowed history of student pranks (often known as hacks) at MIT includes the annual Baker House Piano Drop and the MIT weather balloon at the Harvard-Yale football game in 1982.
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani12 May 2026
On May 3, an unusual procession moved through Washington DC. Several hundred people walked beneath the monuments of the American capital carrying portraits of Red Army soldiers.
History of MITby Adam Zewe | MIT News12 May 2026
Despite regional variability in climate, electricity sources, congestion, and the wide variation in individual driving patterns, electric vehicles generate less greenhouse gas emissions and do not...
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News7 May 2026
When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going to wipe out workers broadly, in the name of greater efficiency.
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze6 May 2026
Wealth is health, Insider betting & Trump will see himself in court Inequality is bad for you, and new figures in the UK show that the number of years when people can live healthy lives have fallen...
Asterisk Magazineby Dan Bouk6 May 2026
I met Norm two decades ago. I recall him clothed in slacks and a button-down — I think it was the sort of shirt that featured a breast pocket expressly for carrying mechanical pencils.
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News5 May 2026
In 1960, engineers at India’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) built what they called an “Automatic Calculator,” the country’s first working computer.
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani1 May 2026
A coup is underway in Mali, though it has not brought down the governing junta just yet. The country’s military leader, General Assimi Goïta has, after days in hiding, appeared in public to claim...
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough29 Apr 2026
Why Trump-backer Justin Sun is suing the Trumps’ firm Donald Trump and the crypto world have done well out of each other.
Asterisk Magazineby Dan Schwarz29 Apr 2026
We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth. In 2007, Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Daniel Kahneman, and other notable scholars published a statement arguing that...
Coda Storyby Isobel Cockerell28 Apr 2026
It starts with a simple search term in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. “Blue eyes.” Hundreds of results.
History of MITby Anne Trafton | MIT News28 Apr 2026
Patterns of molecular activity in the blood may hold clues not only to how fit someone is, but also to the biological processes that support physical performance.
History of MITby Adam Zewe | MIT News27 Apr 2026
Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S.
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