deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Why social media has changed the world —…
MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord CAMBRIDGE, Mass.(MIT News office) -- Are you on social media a lot? When is…
Astronomers discover an Earth-sized “pi planet” with a…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In a delightful alignment of astronomy and mathematics, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a “pi Earth” — an Earth-sized planet that zips around its star every 3.14 days, in an orbit…
New way to halt leukemia relapse shown promising…
Researchers have identified a second path to defeating chronic myelogenous leukemia, which tends to affect older adults, even in the face of resistance to existing drugs. The new findings were published on September 17th in Nature…
COVID-19 race: forty Covid-19 vaccines in clinical trials…
Prof. Nikolai Petrovsky, PhD A Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc throughout the world, and will likely continue to for months to come. It is a no-nonsense health risk, which is why countries around the world…