These Odd Birds Flirt by Clapping in the Middle of the Night

MIT students study plasma physics beneath Alaska’s aurora

Nationalizing the Ten Commandments?

MIT affiliates elected to National Academy of Sciences for 2026

The Young Oikophobes

The rules neurons follow to make sense of what we see

A Mysterious Children’s Search Engine Is Misleading Kids

A Department of Justice for an Age of Conspiracy Theories

Open Thread

To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly

What the 18th Century Can Teach the 21st

Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody

Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World

New NASA Graphic Captures Human Activity at Night

How the war in the Middle East is impacting global energy systems

More Than Half of L.A.’s Homeless Are Not from L.A.

The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors

Open Thread

The “Pipeline” Problem That Medical Schools Don’t Want to Discuss

The Haystack 37m Telescope: A new era of astrophysical research

Why Does Donald Trump Refuse to Defend America?