After the off-campus murder of a professor last semester, some MIT students returned to classes with thoughts on whether the ...

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty foods can push liver cells into a survival mode that quietly raises the risk of ...

How Seed Oils Became Controversial—And What the Science Really Says A food scientist debunks the vilification of seed oils on social media and explains what research says about them. Why flu cases are ...