Society
Soulmate Since Childhood Murdered by Partner in Tragic Act
A woman reflects on losing her lifelong best friend Annabel to gender-based violence. Explore the devastating...
UK Watchdog Launches Privacy Inquiry Into NHS Mental Health Cameras
Information Commissioner investigates Oxevision surveillance system used by 40% of NHS mental health trusts ov...
Probation Officers Overwhelmed: Public Safety Crisis in England
Probation union warns excessive workloads endanger public safety in England and Wales. Napo declares no confid...
Elizabeth Greenhall: Pioneer of Family Planning Healthcare
Elizabeth Greenhall, public health consultant who revolutionized family planning services in Oxfordshire and e...
Revisiting My Cringe Viral Moments: Why Teens Today Face Harder Digital Consequences
I discovered my viral teenage video from 2006 had minimal real-world impact. Today's digital natives face far...
MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026
The prestigious honor society honors four MIT faculty and 13 additional MIT alumni among more than 250 new mem...
How morality and ethics shaped India’s economic development
A book by Associate Professor Jason Jackson explores how policymakers moved past post-colonial India to suppor...
Why bother with plausible deniability?
Philosopher Sam Berstler explains why we have social norms that let people engage in open deception.
Built to fly
MIT senior, master's candidate, and airman Brian Robinson lives and works at the intersection of aviation, pol...
A philosophy of work
As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research...
The flawed fundamentals of failing banks
MIT economist Emil Verner’s historical detective work shows how banking-sector crises develop out of bad busin...
Why does wealth inequality matter?
An MIT Stone Center event examined the origins, mechanisms, and political consequences of high inequality.
Tomás Palacios named director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
The electrical engineering and nanotechnology leader will guide the US Army-sponsored research center as it ad...
MIT hackathon tackles real-world challenges in Ukraine
Build for Ukraine 2.0 united students, researchers, and Ukrainian collaborators to prototype solutions shaped...
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026
The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas.
Advancing international trade research and finding community
Sojun Park, a postdoc at the Center for International Studies, has learned much from his research on intellect...
Bridging medical realities in the study of technology and health
Anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas studies overlooked insights from people health care is meant to reach.
Preserving Keres
Linguistics graduate student William Pacheco hopes to preserve his endangered native language, while also beco...