Recent articles from publications based in United States.
History of MITby Michaela Jarvis | MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems17 Jul 2026
Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity.
Palladium Magazineby Matt Duffy17 Jul 2026
In 1976 the social scientist and cyberneticist Donald T. Campbell developed a principle, now known as Campbell’s Law, that would later become one of the most reliable diagnostics of institutional...
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce17 Jul 2026
We occasionally use flowers to decorate food, but few people would think of flowers themselves as food.
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News17 Jul 2026
As sea levels rise due to climate change, encroaching sea water will likely make freshwater environments saltier.
NBC Newsby Mili Godio16 Jul 2026
Here at NBC Selected, we’ve tested hundreds of skin care brands, so it takes a lot to impress us.
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team16 Jul 2026
Millions of people around the world drink coffee to boost their energy. Researchers in South Korea have now given new meaning to the concept of coffee as fuel.
The Marshall Projectby Jill Castellano16 Jul 2026
The state of New Jersey has adopted a slate of reforms changing how hospitals handle allegations of substance use in pregnancy, becoming one of the first in the nation to require healthcare...
The Marshall Projectby Shoshana Walter16 Jul 2026
The mothers of Black newborns are more likely than those of White newborns to be referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy, according to The Marshall Project’s...
MIT Newsby Zach Winn | MIT News16 Jul 2026
Will a warming climate and changing weather patterns lead to more grid blackouts and other energy disruptions?
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News16 Jul 2026
Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components.
The Marshall Projectby Lauren Villagran15 Jul 2026
The shooting deaths of two immigrants at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the past week have brought the Trump administration’s violent crackdown into sharp relief once...
History of MITby Media Lab15 Jul 2026
Millions of people are now designing their own personalized artificial intelligence companions, yet most have little idea how those creations will actually behave.
History of MITby Anne Trafton | MIT News15 Jul 2026
Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and a Nobel laureate, died July 11 at the age of 86.
MIT Newsby Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering15 Jul 2026
Concrete is the most widely used building material on Earth, and producing it is one of the largest single sources of carbon emissions.
MIT Newsby David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory15 Jul 2026
It’s a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during repetitions of the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is the same.
Narrativelyby Aj Hannah15 Jul 2026
Photos courtesy the author. This story is part of our ongoing series From the Ground Up, a collaboration between Narratively and ScottsMiracle-Gro exploring the lives, memories, and connections...
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News15 Jul 2026
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet, also called a ketogenic diet, can help some people lose weight by forcing their bodies to burn fat for fuel instead of sugar.
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough15 Jul 2026
FIFA’s games betray our trust A lot is written about corruption, but fundamentally it’s about trust and how healthy societies can’t exist without it; and the World Cup has shown what happens when...
Coda Storyby Phineas Rueckert15 Jul 2026
After kilometers of flat, orange desert, the bus dives down through an increasingly lunar landscape as it reaches San Pedro de Atacama.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall15 Jul 2026
Sometimes a big story can be told with a very small object. Take the hazards of plastic pollution in the ocean, and a single bottle cap floating in the Pacific Ocean near Japan.
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