Science

Sports are a massive—and growing—economic force in the United States and around the globe, opening new opportunities for careers.

Grassroots logistics networks provided food and essential goods to New Yorkers who fell through the cracks of conventional supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering important lessons for engineers designing the next generation of distribution technologies, according to new research…

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a novel research model to enhance investigations conducted at the intersection of religion and medicine.

For most people, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is simply a niche fantasy table-top game. But around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing. They’re engaging in leisure. Serious leisure, to be exact.…

In postwar America, as suburbs spread and federal social welfare programs expanded, one underexamined building type quietly became a fixture of the American health care landscape: the nursing home.

Scientists have uncovered a toxic alliance between Aβ and fibrinogen that may explain how Alzheimer’s disease begins. The two proteins together create stubborn clots that damage blood vessels and spark inflammation in the brain. These effects appear even at very…

The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia’s largest glaciers.

Why do some people regularly attend the opera, visit art galleries, or go to classical music concerts—while others rarely, if ever, do?

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet’s equator, a new study finds.