AT MIT, THEY’RE WORKING ON DODGING ASTEROIDS. MOTHER EARTH RECENTLY DODGED A BULLET. AN ASTEROID THE SIZE OF AN EIGHT STORY BUILDING. BUT WE’RE NOT ENTIRELY IN THE CLEAR. YEAH, THERE MIGHT BE MORE ...

Steelmaking is an important part of our global industries. However, the process by which we make steel is extremely bad for the climate, with the byproducts of the process accounting for roughly seven ...

Pollination is a crucial part of global food production. And yet, bee populations continue to decline as we rip away their habitats, continue to fail in our fight against climate change, and use ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally altering the landscape of scientific discovery, marking a significant step towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI). A new study from ...

The Georgetown University Earth Commons Institute, a center for environmental and sustainability innovation, research education and action, hosted a talk Feb. 9 titled “Addressing Climate Change and ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is among 13 research universities and three organizations suing the National Science Foundation (NSF), after the agency’s efforts to slash indirect costs at ...

Cancer has a talent for hiding in plain sight, cloaking itself in sugary molecules that convince the immune system to stand down. Researchers at MIT and Stanford have now engineered a way to rip away ...

Scientists from MIT have been blasting magnets with lasers, which is more scientific than it sounds. Researchers working with antiferromagnetic material have devised a way to control the magnetic ...