On Sept. 9, 2018, astronomers spotted a flash from a galaxy 860 million light years away. The source was a...
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By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office The stock market is a staple of business news, but it is unclear how meaningful...
Read the plan: https://climate.mit.edu/climateaction/fastforward MIT has released an ambitious new plan for action to address the world’s accelerating climate crisis. The...
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office The Covid-19 pandemic, like many other health crises, has had unequal effects on the...
By Daniel Ackerman, MIT News Video: https://youtu.be/DS-0M2y0vsk When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee mug collection?...
A lobster’s underbelly is lined with a thin, translucent membrane that is both stretchy and surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor,...
About a quarter of a percent of the entire gross domestic product of industrialized countries is estimated to be lost...
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office Story: https://news.mit.edu/2021/counting-pedestrian-traffic-0415 A key portion of MIT’s campus overlaps with Kendall Square, the bustling area in...
Two MIT professors have proposed a new approach to estimating the risks of exposure to Covid-19 under different indoor settings....
Ultralight bosons are hypothetical particles whose mass is predicted to be less than a billionth the mass of an electron....