Science

As Nairobi’s skyline climbs ever higher, life for those living on the city’s edges is being transformed—and not always for the better.

Can an organization ever be truly meritocratic? That’s a question Emilio J. Castilla, the NTU Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explores in his new book, “The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and…

Economics could do with less mathematics and more story, says Canada’s most-cited economist.

Waiting in an airport for a connecting flight is often tedious. A new study by MIT researchers shows it’s bad for business, too.

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there’s a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence local politics to benefit their operations.

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike anything I’d seen before.

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars’ landscape truly is.

Baby boomers could be the secret ingredient for corporate sustainability, according to a new Murdoch University study.

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus plays a decisive role in maturing the cortex and organizing…

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the virus directly in their DNA, passing it down across generations. The study…