Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows.

In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.

Extractive industries threaten water, glaciers, and livelihoods, but new research offers hope.

MIT professor, students collaborate with Chilean partners for an exhibition marking 50 years since Allende's presidency.

The inaugural SERC Symposium convened experts from multiple disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of society.

Dwaipayan Banerjee’s new book examines the psychological and social terrain of living with cancer in a country where the disease has long been downplayed.

In a new book, Professor David Kaiser describes dramatic shifts in the history of an evolving discipline.

An MIT team discusses the pitfalls of “parachute research” and the importance of “sociotechnical” factors.

Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second.

A scholar’s book uncovers new material about the effects of the infamous nuclear meltdown.