24 September 2019
Discovery is always political
David Kaiser traces the roots of government support for science, in the first of a series of essays on how the past 150 years…
3 Questions: Why are student-athletes amateurs?
MIT Professor Jennifer Light digs into the history of the idea that students aren’t part of the labor force.
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Chernobyl: How bad was it?
A scholar’s book uncovers new material about the effects of the infamous nuclear meltdown.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
March 5, 2019
Not long after…
Free Will, Video Games, and the Most Profound Quantum Mystery
By David Kaiser
May 9, 2018
The Big Bell Test probed quantum mechanics using crowdsourced inputs from volunteer video-game players.…
A Physicist’s Farewell to Stephen Hawking
By David Kaiser
March 15, 2018
Stephen Hawking was a scientific and cultural revolutionary. He saw the cosmos as no one before him had—and…
Why These Friendly Robots Can’t Be Good Friends to our Kids
By Sherry Turkle
Jibo the robot swivels around when it hears its name and tilts its touchscreen face upward, expectantly.…
Learning From Gravitational Waves
By DAVID KAISER OCT. 3, 2017
A billion years ago (give or take), in a galaxy far, far away, two black holes concluded a cosmic pas de…
Italian nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo walks through the streets of Moscow following his defection to Russia, 12 March 1955. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images