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AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on “explainable AI,” today’s most advanced systems remain black

NEW YORK (AP) – A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe released its

When you’re prospecting for gold, sometimes you can find treasure of a different kind. That’s what happened in the desert

The colon is about one and a half meters long and plays a vital role in moving waste through the

The highest-resolution map yet of the underlying geology beneath Earth’s Southern Hemisphere revealed something we had never known before: an

An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new species from a vast, dimly lit habitat between the sunlit surface and

In his 1927 paper, “A law of comparative judgment,” the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select

One September day, it started to snow inside MIT’s Pierce Laboratory.  Researchers depressurized a tank of liquid carbon dioxide (CO2),

Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Debates about vaccines are a recurring feature of contemporary politics. It turns out they actually date back more than 200