Namwali Serpell’s Study of Toni Morrison

Alzheimer’s blood tests predict the average age at which the disease may strike, study finds

Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users

New study unveils the mechanism behind “boomerang” earthquakes

Books and screens

Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain

Open Thread

Iran Is Trying To Silence Dissent. Western Media Are Breaking Through Anyway.

Global Cooperation in a Time of Geopolitical Disruption

MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Mamdani Discovers Common Sense on Homeless Sweeps

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

"I find myself being more and more difficult," Toni Morrison once said. "It's something I really relish." The difficulty was the point

New Study Probes How Same-Sex Behaviors Evolved in Nonhuman Primates

Study: More eyes on the skies will help planes reduce climate-warming contrails

Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable

A New Study Challenges the Mental-Health Claims of “Gender-Affirming Care”

Court Refuses to Block Medical Journal's Retraction of COVID Vaccine Study That Had ~150K Views

Study: High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous

Politics and war complicate global effort to study changes to Earth's poles

NIH official resigns after flap over risks of seasonal flu virus study

Today in Supreme Court History: December 25, 2009