MIT researchers have designed a printable aluminum alloy that’s five times stronger than cast aluminum and holds up at extreme temperatures. Machine learning helped them zero in on the ideal recipe in ...

Abstract: Despite increased cultural awareness of computing, programming remains inaccessible to many young people. In response to this challenge, MIT Media Lab researchers are developing Scratch, ...

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An economist and an environmental law expert explain why a tax is more palatable to the industry and better for the public than regulation. Most people who received some money experienced less hunger, ...

China’s kids have been blocked from accessing the first programming language of many young developers, Scratch. Greatfire, an organisation which monitors China’s infamous Great Firewall web censorship ...

The hydra of the Epstein scandal — in which each sliver of reporting resolves one question only to raise two or three more unnerving inquiries — keeps growing heads. The latest instance in this ...

The Scratch programming language and online community celebrates its 10th birthday this year. Millions of children from around the world have used Scratch to make interactive media and share it with ...

Something's been missing from the recent spate of 1990s role-playing throwbacks: Dungeons & Dragons. While games like Pillars of Eternity certainly have their influences, the actual D&D rules of ...

Researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have developed an imaging system that can identify letters on the first nine pages of a book without opening it. As a result, scanning a book in future may not ...

The Boston area might be a hot college spot in the US, but it’s also apparently home to the best institutions in the world. A new list of the world’s most prestigious universities ranks Harvard ...