SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Four new faculty members join the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) this fall, offering the MIT...

Fire season is expanding in California, with an earlier start to wildfire activity in most of the state. In parts of the northern mountains, the season is now starting more than 10 weeks earlier than...

A rubber duck that was stuck to a seaside rock for more than a year has proved the strength...

Stone tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that ancient human relatives arrived there between about 1 million and 1.5 million years ago — far earlier than previously known.The discovery, described August 6 in Nature, pushes back the timeline...

Getty ImagesmRNA vaccines were heralded as a medical marvel that saved lives during the Covid pandemic, but now the US is pulling back from researching them.US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has cancelled 22 projects - worth $500m...

Mosses may appear simple, but they’re far from fragile. They thrive in some of the harshest places on Earth — Antarctica, arid deserts, high mountain peaks and more.“We’ve long wondered about the molecular mechanisms that allow moss to endure...

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic hurdles that had delayed...

A short-term course of a type of psychotherapy was three times more effective at relieving chronic lower back pain...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsDian Fossey Gorilla FundMs Martignac explained that the gorillas would invest in these relationships because they deliver key social benefits. "New arrivals usually start at the bottom of the social hierarchy," she said. "Resident females...

As we get older, a few cognitive slip-ups might seem inevitable. But what’s become apparent over the past decade...