Science

In early spring 2026, a dry, dust-laden wind known as the harmattan swept across northwestern Africa. Cold temperatures, high winds, and blowing dust prompted officials to issue an alert for several regions of Morocco due to the low visibility...

Tomás Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, has been appointed director of...

Vice President J.D. Vance has spent years urging people in the United States to have more babies. With the announcement that he and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child in July, Vance has himself assumed the mantle...

After weeks of delays, NASA is finally poised for the launch of a historic flight this week to send a crew of four astronauts on a trailblazing nine-day trip around the moon and back.The Artemis...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give...

NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston, $180.4 million to deliver NASA-funded science and technology to the lunar surface as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program. This lunar delivery, which includes seven...

During this year’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), students, researchers, and collaborators across seven time zones came together...

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to basically tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents.Arctic sea ice levels, especially in the...

Technology and science demonstrations, supported by various NASA industry collaborations and agency developments, are set to launch to low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of the company’s Transporter-16 commercial rideshare mission. These demonstrations will...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude regularly answer our questions. And souped-up versions of these chatbots, called AI agents, take actions on their own, helping people with appointments, coding and more. AI agents are starting to contribute to science and...