Knight Fellows offer tips on tackling the energy and climate science beat
Science journalists discuss the current state of their profession and its future.
Principles of Microeconomics now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar format
14.01SC is the third of seven courses OCW will publish this spring specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.
Unique languages, universal patterns
MIT linguist reveals how modern English resembles Old Japanese, and other surprising convergences between far-flung tongues.
3 Questions: Adam Berinsky on the unpredictable GOP campaign
Political scientist who studies public opinion assesses a campaign with wildly fluctuating polls.
Visiting Artist Ben Houge leads lively 'Sound and Real-Time Systems' panel
Artists discuss the convergence between video games, digital media and music composition.
Three MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Gedik, Matusik and Pathak among 126 researchers selected.
Jens Hainmueller: A 'numbers' guy takes on pressing public policy issues
Political science associate professor ties together qualitative and quantitative ways of thinking about politics and society.
Robert Lepage launches workshop on Feb. 12
MIT students collaborate with McDermott Award recipient Lepage and discover creative possibilities of playing cards.
MIT Libraries receive papers of distinguished linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky
Significant collection spans a long and distinguished career dating to 1955.
Historian of science Charles Weiner dies at 80
Longtime faculty member was a pre-eminent analyst of the political, social and ethical dimensions of contemporary science.
Experimental World War I video game combats 'over-engineered' storytelling
MIT lab proves games don't need supercharged technology to create dramatic narratives.
MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Talks explore the mind/machine interface and the science of predicting the economy, among other topics.
