We are pleased to award the 2017 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize to “When Inspiration Yielded to Calculation: Technology and Politics of the SST in the New Frontier,” by John Tylko, a…
A Cosmic Controversy
A Scientific American article about the theory of inflation prompted a reply from a group of 33 physicists, along with a response from the article’s authors.…
Historians say the March for Science is ‘pretty unprecedented’
by Chris Mooney, Washington Post, April 22
STS faculty member William Deringer has been awarded a fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University for 2017-’18. The Davis Center seeks to foster interdisciplinary…
THE POLITICS OF PAIN: Medicine, Social Difference, and Gatekeepers of Relief in America
Monday, March 20, 2017
QUANTUM THEORY BY STARLIGHT
By David Kaiser
February 7, 2017
In parsing the strange dance of subatomic particles, it can be helpful to think of them as twins.IMAGE BY CHRONICLE /…
Stars align in test supporting “spooky action at a distance”
Physicists address loophole in tests of Bell’s inequality, using 600-year-old starlight.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
February 6, 2017
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“CONSCIENCE FOR THE TECH WORLD” SHERRY TURKLE WINS USC ANNENBERG’S EVERETT M. ROGERS AWARD
Pioneering scholar of how technology shapes our lives for better and worse
LOS ANGELES (February 7, 2017)…