George R.R. Martin joins a growing list of authors, actors and musicians who have published scientific research papers.

MIT will present the Boston-area premiere of Golden City, Grammy Award-winning alto saxophonist/composer and MIT faculty member Miguel Zenón's powerful suite for large ensemble.

Generative AI has quickly and quietly made accessing the tools for sophisticated deepfake fraud cheaper and easier than ever.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping 25% tariffs on Canada could be “devastating” to newspapers, especially community publications in small towns.

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

Bryan Johnson wants to be ever young, Elon Musk wants to live on Mars and Artificial General Intelligence promises to ...

A specialized sponge that works to slurp up pollutants, and then release them as desired, may present a reusable, low-cost solution.

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...