Volcanic Venus
New research highlights recent volcanic activity on Venus, indicating that Earth’s sister planet is alive — geologically speaking
To starve a tumor
MIT’s Matthew Vander Heiden is part of a new generation of cancer researchers trying to exploit cancer cells’ strange metabolism.
Crossing a threshold of particle physics
Scientists celebrate as the Large Hadron Collider achieves its highest-energy collisions yet.
Slideshow: A Terrascope spring break
Students visit Abu Dhabi to learn about plans for the world’s first carbon-neutral city
A manufacturing renaissance for America?
At an MIT forum, experts examine new ways to pursue a good old idea: making things.
Two seniors, one graduate student win $250,000 Hertz Fellowships
No-strings-attached awards last up to five years
Building peace between border zones, one diagnosis at a time
Moca Lab project wins 2010 Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship
Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets
By disrupting brain activity in a particular region, neuroscientists can sway people’s views of moral situations.
Rough calculations
Sanjoy Mahajan’s new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving
No harm, no foul
Study of moral judgment finds that patients with a specific brain defect lack the emotional reaction necessary to find fault with attempted murderers
Explained: Dynamo theory
Recent discoveries raise questions about how small planets can have self-sustaining magnetic fields