History of MITby Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | System Design and Management30 Jun 2026
Three teams comprising 35 students across eight different MIT departments and Wellesley College have been at work since fall 2025, designing critical early infrastructure elements that a moon base...
Asterisk Magazineby Lennart Finke30 Jun 2026
Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence. ….Right? In 1710, Scottish doctor John Arbuthnot presented a new proof for the existence of God.1 He had observed that for 82 years in a row...
Scienceby Webb Wright29 Jun 2026
According to many true-believers, the biggest promise of AI is its potential to accelerate scientific discovery; once-in-a-generation breakthroughs could one day become routine, thanks to...
History of MITby Jennifer Chu | MIT News29 Jun 2026
The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s protective layer of stratospheric ozone.
Digital Photography Schoolby Sime29 Jun 2026
We have a lot of less expensive tripods, bipods and monopods come across our desk here at dPS, and I’ve got to admit that the thought of them can make me shudder!
Commonplace - The Commoncog Blogby Cedric Chin29 Jun 2026
Some of you will already know that over the past six weeks or so, we’ve had five workshops from Roger Williams, teaching us Eliyahu Goldratt’s Thinking Tools.
History of MITby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences26 Jun 2026
David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, has been named head of the Department of Economics, effective July 1.
The Life of Scienceby Nandita26 Jun 2026
Though I didn’t study in one myself, women’s colleges were all around me in Chennai where I grew up.
Amazon Science Homepageby Katy Huff24 Jun 2026
Amazon is investing in next-generation nuclear technology to meet the rising energy demands of AI infrastructure and cloud computing, and at the heart of that technology are tristructural isotropic...
History of MITby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences23 Jun 2026
At the recent AI and Society Forum at MIT, experts from across the Institute discussed the potential benefits and dangers of technological innovation on labor, the nature of work, civil discourse...
Psychology Blogby David Webb22 Jun 2026
By David Webb, Founder and Editor of All-About-Psychology.com The “nihilist penguin” refers to a viral clip from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World, in which a lone...
The Life of Scienceby aashima20 Jun 2026
My mother worked the counters at the State Bank of India when she was my age. She counted bills, served customers, and moved between branches before returning to the mess at home.
Ex Astris Scientiaby easinfo@gmail.com (EAS)20 Jun 2026
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History of MIT18 Jun 2026
On June 9, The Boston Globe released its 2026 “Tech Power Players” list, recognizing 50 influential local leaders in technology and business across Massachusetts.
History of MITby Stefanie Koperniak | MIT Open Learning17 Jun 2026
From the icy expanse of the South Pole, John Della Costa, a researcher on the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) project, watches STS.042/8.225 (Einstein, Oppenheimer...
History of MITby Julie Diop | Initiative for New Manufacturing16 Jun 2026
In May, the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) marked its first anniversary with MIT Manufacturing Week, four days of events that attracted more than 800 registrants including students...
History of MITby Lillian Eden | Department of Biology12 Jun 2026
In winter 1997, at age 60, when many researchers might be looking forward to retirement, Harriet Latham Robinson SM ’61, PhD ’65 was pursuing a faculty position as the chief of microbiology and...
blargby mhoye12 Jun 2026
June 12, 2026 Ted Chiang recently wrote that: The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a...
History of MITby Peter Dizikes | MIT News12 Jun 2026
Debates about vaccines are a recurring feature of contemporary politics. It turns out they actually date back more than 200 years, since the development of the first smallpox vaccine.
History of MITby Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning11 Jun 2026
Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), effective July 1.
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