A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has gone viral for awkwardly interrupting a math lecture to protest the so-called “ongoing genocide of Gaza.” The clip, viewed more than 18 ...

In January, the Harvard Business Review shared a study that showed that the average entrepreneur did not study a STEM field while in college. But, that’s totally fine, because we’re privileged with ...

Local News Watch: MIT students give longtime professor a standing ovation after his last lecture Gilbert Strang, a world-renowned mathematics professor, has been at MIT — as a student and teacher — ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to publish online all its course materials--a $107,840 value. The MIT OpenCourseWare project launched two weeks ago with a preliminary pilot that ...

When the New England Patriots beat the "Deflategate" charges with the help of MIT's John Leonard, the professor of mechanical engineering decided to turn his research findings into a lesson for high ...

There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For a long time, computer scientists struggled to develop artificial intelligence that could solve ...

Combinatorics is a fancy word for counting. Doing really big problems by the partial products method gets really cumbersome and no one actually does it. Don’t try to do this chapter if you don’t have ...

MIT has removed the lectures of a retired faculty member from a popular online learning platform after determining that he had sexually harassed a woman on the Internet, the school’s News Office ...