Political

One may argue that one of many major duties of a doctor is to continually consider and re-evaluate the percentages: What are the probabilities of a medical process’s success? Is the affected person liable to creating extreme signs? When ought to the affected person return for extra testing? Amidst these essential deliberations, the rise of […] More

Linda Qiu, a New York Times reporter, fact-checks some claims by three of President-elect Donald Trump’s cupboard picks: Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. More

MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson PhD ’89, whose work has illuminated the connection between political programs and financial development, have been named winners of the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Political scientist James Robinson of the University of Chicago, with whom they’ve labored carefully, additionally shares the award. “Societies […] More

The quantity of waste generated by the development sector underscores an pressing want for embracing circularity — a sustainable mannequin that goals to attenuate waste and maximize materials effectivity by restoration and reuse — within the constructed setting: 600 million tons of building and demolition waste was produced within the United States alone in 2018, with 820 […] More

MIT-affiliated winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes had been celebrated in Stockholm, Sweden, as a part of Nobel Week, which culminated with a grand Nobel ceremony on Dec. 10. This 12 months’s laureates with MIT ties embody Daron Acemoglu, an Institute Professor, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, who collectively shared […] More

The idea of neighborhood policing gained extensive acclaim within the U.S. when crime dropped drastically in the course of the Nineteen Nineties. In Chicago, Boston, and elsewhere, police departments established applications to construct extra native relationships, to higher improve neighborhood safety. But how nicely does neighborhood policing work elsewhere? A brand new multicountry experiment co-led […] More

For the primary time, MIT despatched an organized engagement to the worldwide Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity, which this 12 months was held Oct. 21 to Nov. 1 in Cali, Colombia. The 10 delegates to COP16 included college, researchers, and college students from the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), the […] More

For all of the speak about synthetic intelligence upending the world, its financial results stay unsure. There is huge funding in AI however little readability about what it’s going to produce. Examining AI has turn out to be a big a part of Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu’s work. An Institute Professor at MIT, Acemoglu has […] More

Mlen-Too Wesley has light recollections of his early childhood in Liberia, however the sharpest one has formed his life. Wesley was 4 years outdated when he and his household boarded a navy airplane to flee the West African nation. At the time, the nation was embroiled in a 14-year civil battle that killed roughly 200,000 folks, displaced about […] More

Migrants have turn into a flashpoint in world politics. But new analysis by an MIT political scientist, targeted on West Germany and Poland after World War II, exhibits that in the long run, these international locations developed stronger states, extra affluent economies, and extra entrepreneurship after receiving a big inflow of immigrants. Those findings come […] More

A lot of patterns have emerged among the many individuals President-elect Donald J. Trump has indicated he desires to fill his cupboard and different senior-level positions in his administration. Some factors of commonality are traditionally typical amongst senior White House and cupboard officers — Harvard, Yale and Princeton are properly represented amongst his picks’ alma […] More

Capping world warming at 1.5 levels Celsius is a tall order. Achieving that aim won’t solely require a large discount in greenhouse gasoline emissions from human actions, but additionally a considerable reallocation of land to help that effort and maintain the biosphere, together with people. More land will likely be wanted to accommodate a rising […] More