British anti-terrorism authorities charged five men on Thursday with conspiring to build a bomb from 1,000 pounds of explosive material to be used against unspecified targets. The charges, along with ...

The New York Times -- House and Senate negotiators said they had reached an agreement Thursday on a bill that would save companies an estimated $80 billion in pension contributions over the next two ...

The Chocolate show was here at MIT. Betty Shamieh’s critically acclaimed Chocolate in Heat: Growing Up Arab In America is currently touring college campuses nationwide, and the MIT Arab Student ...

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO COULDN'T bear to tear yourselves away from your late-night tooling sessions, you missed a great double bill with Jesus Jones and Ned's Atomic Dustbin at the Orpheum. From the ...

Thanks to a successful show during the San Diego Padres’ spring training season, Jason E. Szuminski ’01 has become the first MIT graduate to play Major League Baseball. While he was originally a ...

Great warriors had coup d’oeil in abundance. Great warriors used it to predict what the opponent would do. Alexander the Great called it his “hope,” Caesar called it his “luck,” and Napoleon called it ...

Four former members of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the subject of Ben Mezrich’s 2002 best-selling book Bringing Down the House about MIT students who made millions in the 1990s by counting cards at Las ...

Last night at the Sanders Theatre at Harvard, the 15th First Annual Ig Nobel prizes were distributed to 10 curious and motivated people for their almost inconceivable research. Unlike the Nobel Prize, ...

Nearly 80 departments and labs will host a total of 380 activities in 170 spaces around campus for 20,000 visitors on April 23 in an open house to commemorate the 100th anniversary of MIT’s move to ...

The parents of Julia M. Carpenter ’03, who committed suicide in April 2001, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against MIT, several Institute officials, and Charvak P. Karpe ’04. Carpenter’s parents ...

MIT has tapped entrepreneur and technology executive Frank Moss as the new director of its fabled Media Laboratory at a time when the lab, which helped popularize the 1990s digital revolution, is ...

The ghoulish discoveries at a rural crematory worsened Monday when incredulous investigators opened four metal boxes packed with more bodies. By nightfall Monday, the remains of 139 bodies had been ...