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
A change of mind
One protein appears to control neurons’ ability to react to new experiences, MIT scientists show.
MIT wins Putnam math competition
Seniors Qingchun Ren and Yufei Zhao finish in top five, helping MIT secure overall victory and end a four-year drought.
Mapping Venus
New analysis supports theory that Venus’ surface evolved through extreme makeover, not plate tectonics
Explained: Climate sensitivity
If we double the Earth’s greenhouse gases, how much will the temperature change? That’s what this number tells you.