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

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.…

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

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

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

To guess a word, the model simply runs its numbers. It calculates a score for each word in its vocabulary…

However, for drugs that carry a risk of serious side effects, the FDA can add a risk evaluation and mitigation…

Washington — A pair of brothers from New York and Boston were taken into federal custody Tuesday, accused by prosecutors…

Here are four trends to look for in the year ahead that will define what the chips of the future…

A technology that sees the world from different angles We are not there yet. The furthest advances in this direction…

The AI Act’s Impacts on Policy and RegulationsThe AI Act is here, and companies in the US and the UK…

For companies producing just about any physical product, the many “black swan” events (catastrophic incidents that are nearly impossible to…

Tal, who has been obsessed with infectious disease since losing an uncle to HIV/AIDS and a cousin to meningococcal meningitis,…

As efficient creators and stewards of wetlands, beavers provide a hospitable ecosystem for dozens of other creatures, from insects, frogs,…

The road to economics Thompkins’s experiences as a youth advocate set her up to dream big about what she might…