For years, Lupe Fiasco’s music lived softly in my mind – a hum of resistance, a reminder of truth. Then, under Joburg’s stormy sky, I finally stood before the man who wields…
Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why
The star, which is similar to the sun, engulfed the planet over a period of around 100 days
Engineering students are best prepared for the shift in gear, but they will need to learn to change lanes
The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
The 2018 Media Lab Disobedience Award has been awarded to three leading figures behind the #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM movements
An American student has filed a lawsuit against the CIA to unearth the exact level of the agency’s complicity in the 1962 arrest of Nelson Mandela.
Police have descended on a Boston suburb amid reports of gunfire and explosions after a university police officer was shot dead on the MIT campus.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius won his appeal on Friday and can compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration (CAS) for Sport ruled that the…
What do you want your cellphone to be able to do? A Massachusetts Industry of Technology professor put that question to about 20 computer-science students this semester when he…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston usually plays host to the world’s leading scientists, Nobel laureates and technological pioneers. But at the weekend it was…
No prizes for guessing the least popular and most hassled men at Camp Striker near Baghdad. That would be the staff at Magic Island Technologies, who last week switched off the…
A computer developed for the world’s poor children, dubbed ”the laptop”, has reached a milestone: It is now selling for . The One Laptop per Child Foundation, founded by MIT…
