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Engineers are renowned clock-problem solvers. They’re also notorious for treating every problem like a clock. Increasing specialization and cultural expectations…

Last week, my colleague James O’Donnell wrote about a report by the think tank Center for a New American Security…

And with that, play starts to become something different. Not that it can’t still be fun and joyful! Even watching…

Being one of those few women was not easy. In the 1960s and ’70s, when she continued at MIT for…

Chen’s research suggests it doesn’t have to be that way. She investigates the interaction between sex differences, stress, and mental…

Unshrinking joins the growing literature on anti-fat bias, including the work of sociologist Sabrina Strings, whose book Fearing the Black…

It’s hard not to laugh at NASA’s blooper reel of astronauts falling and bouncing in slow motion on the moon.…

What they propose is a series of vertical cylinders, each surrounded by four long, rudder-like slats. The engineers found that…

The study also revealed that the liver is more susceptible to infections such as malaria at certain points in the…

The finding could help explain a phenomenon that has mystified climate scientists for more than 80 years, in which clouds…

Colonoscopies are a boon for preventing colon cancer, but patients may develop gastrointestinal bleeding or dangerous small tears in the…

Most people’s sweat contains a protein that can prevent Lyme disease, researchers at MIT and the University of Helsinki have…

Measurements-Based Radar Signature Modeling: An Analysis FrameworkBy Joseph T. Mayhan, senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the late…

At Cardiff University in Wales, Christopher Thomas, Oliver Castell, and Sion Coulman had similar success building an instrument capable of…

Economic innovations, notably AI and electric vehicles, are also increasing industrial demand for water. “When you look at advanced manufacturing…

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