Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and ...

As a professional mechanical engineer, Badri Ratnam was inspired when MIT started offering massive open online courses (MOOCs ...

Expansion and the hidden risk Technological universities across India are expanding at unprecedented speed. New programmes in artificial intelligence, semiconductor technologies, clean-energy systems, ...

Explore core physics concepts and graphing techniques in Python Physics Lesson 3! In this tutorial, we show you how to use Python to visualize physical phenomena, analyze data, and better understand ...

Golf Digest senior writer Alex Myers is on a one-year mission to see how good he can get at golf through daily training, practice and playing. Read more from his “Late Scratch?” series here. Late in ...

Managing risk as we reach for the stars. I was not at the launch site with my former NASA colleagues on January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. Less than ...

Max Tegmark, the MIT physics professor who has become an AI safety campaigner, emerged from days of meetings in a Vatican conference room in September with a stack of paper slips about the size of ...

The body of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the suspected gunman in the shootings, was found in a storage unit in Salem, N.H., on Thursday with two guns beside him. On Saturday, authorities said they ...

A sprawling search for the person responsible for a deadly mass shooting at Brown University is over, but key questions remain about the alleged shooter. Authorities have identified the suspect as ...

Robert F. Bukaty A Reddit post by an observant witness helped lead investigators to the gunman officials say was responsible for the killing of two students during the shooting at Brown University on ...