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Research points to carbon in man-made ponds as catalyst for arsenic contamination in Bangladeshi wells

Graduate student Marcus Causton just wants to hit

A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test last Tuesday.

An exoplanet with an extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy.

Exploiting the recently discovered mechanism could allow biologists to develop disease treatments by shutting down specific genes.

MIT’s Barbara Liskov, winner of the Turing Award, describes how she helped lay the foundations for today’s programming languages.

MIT researchers think America's obesity epidemic can be reversed via ‘foodsheds,’ in which healthier, more affordable food is produced and consumed regionally.

Constantinos Daskalakis applies the theory of computational complexity to game theory, with consequences in a range of disciplines.

Judith Layzer says there’s no easy way out when it comes to climate change — but that geo-engineering might be a last-ditch solution.