Science and Technology Studies

Considering regulation for the space industry now could prevent the proliferation of colonial practices later.

A philosopher of science explains how the industry could explore other planets without exploiting them

MIT SHASS announced leadership changes in its anthropology, comparative media studies and writing, linguistics and philosophy, literature, music and theater arts, science, technology, and society, and women's and gender studies academic areas.

Allergy season is getting longer and more intense as the planet warms. What can parents do to protect their children?

MIT Professor Emerita Evelyn Fox Keller, a groundbreaking philosopher and historian of science who helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, has died at age 87.

Are democratic societies ready for a future in which AI algorithmically assigns limited supplies of respirators or hospital beds during pandemics? Or one in which AI fuels an arms race between disinformation creation and detection? Or sways court decisions with amicus briefs written to mimic the rhetorical and argumentative styles

Inventing the bomb was hard. Maintaining the bomb was harder.

Experts at the 2022 Digital Ethics Summit say expedited development cycles and obviously over-hyped PR material, in tandem with the public's near-total exclusion from conversations around technology, is creating distrust towards the tech sector

Facts, in Latour's view, don't exist "out there," waiting to be discovered or understood. They are the hard-won products of scientific work, the result of a long and often contentious process of collecting data, negotiating controversy, and translating the consensus into papers that are read, judged, and, if all goes smoothly, replicated by scores of other scientists.

The scholar, who passed last week, revolutionized the field of science and technology studies and challenged the very notion of disciplinary boundaries.

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New research explains how the automaker exploits and influences drivers' masculinity

Leo Marx, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Cultural History, emeritus at MIT, died at 102. Marx created a new lens for American history studies, wrote the pioneering book "The Machine in the Garden," and was a leader in bringing the humanities into a central academic role at MIT.

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Loren R. Graham, a longtime MIT historian of science who focused on the history of science in Russia and the Soviet Union and co-founded MIT's graduate HASTS program, died at 91.

The UK's new Labour government has pledged to build 1.5 million homes during its first term in office. To achieve this, it promises planning reform and the reintroduction of local ...

A summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from July 2023 to June 2024.

Inspiration, creativity, discovery—all of these things start from a place of not knowing, and these researchers know how to navigate those uncertainties.​

The green shift has created a strong interest in exploiting the economic opportunities in the ocean, but the ocean is not so easily economized. This is revealed in a comprehensive study, which, among other things, shows how the cod resists being domesticated.

A new comic takes readers through a history of infectious disease discoveries. "A Paradigm Shift in Infectious Disease" follows MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba and artist Argha Manna, who are both protagonists and creators of the project.