3 Questions: Bill Gates on MIT
After speaking about the importance of giving back, the philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder spoke to MIT News about innovation and learning at MIT
After speaking about the importance of giving back, the philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder spoke to MIT News about innovation and learning at MIT
Science advisor to the British government talks about Climategate, the Copenhagen conference, and emission-free energy technology
As America’s decennial headcount gets under way, an MIT political scientist discusses the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census.
Before delivering the Compton Lecture, Britain’s foreign secretary sat down with MIT News to discuss the state of the war in Afghanistan
Can understanding human irrationality help solve our energy problems? An MIT researcher explains
How stringent building codes limited damage in Chile, and why there’s cause for concern in parts of the U.S.
With the vaunted Japanese automaker recalling millions of cars, the MIT senior lecturer explains what went wrong
MIT space researcher predicts that if adopted, Obama’s proposed budget and policy will lead to more joint human-robotic space exploration
The MIT geophysicist expects more earthquakes could hit the region relatively soon.
With large numbers of Americans out of work, economist Ivan Werning suggests some better ways to make unemployment insurance operate
The co-director of MIT’s Global Change program discusses what to expect from the U.N. Climate Change Conference, and the effects of ‘Climategate’
This week, scientists plan to slice the brain of H.M., the amnesia patient who died last year and whose condition helped shed light on how memories are formed.
MIT planetary scientist discusses projects that aim to discover distant planets similar to our own, and what we can learn when we find them
MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change has pegged the annual cost of the proposed cap-and-trade legislation in Congress at $400 per U.S. household. But estimating the cost of doing nothing is far more difficult.
The MIT economist blames inadequate incentives for the failure to develop a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS. He argues governments should help industry create an HIV vaccine by sharing risk.