Cell mechanics + climate science education + Dialogues Across Difference

A multidisciplinary climate change curriculum for high schools, developed at MIT, aims to engage and mobilize teachers and students.

Featuring philosopher John Tomasi, a lecture and conversation event launches a set of community gatherings.

A computational tool from MIT CSAIL enables color-changing cellulose-based designs for data visualization, education, fashion, and more.

The biologist works in the lab of Professor Ruth Lehmann studying germ cells, the cells that become eggs and sperm — and she has a soft spot for Taylor Swift.

In his new book “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science,” Alan Lightman, a professor of the practice of humanities, displays his gift for “distilling complex ideas and emotions to their bright essence.” Lightman “belongs to a noble tradition of science writers, including Oliver Sacks and Lewis Thomas, who can poke endlessly into a subject and, in spite of their prodding, or perhaps because of it, stir up fresh embers of wonder.”