“This tomato is blowing my mind,” says Nermine Hassanin. The MIT graduate student in architecture is marveling at the fruit in her salad. She and several MIT School of Architecture and Planning classmates had spent their morning working at Hannan Healthy Foods Farm in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and then harvested the contents of the salad they […]
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The Sierra Nevada mountain range in California is as stunning as it is diverse, with storms from the Pacific Ocean dumping rain and snow on the range’s western slopes while arid conditions mark much of its eastern face. David Des Marais, MIT’s Amgen Career Development Associate Professor, knows the mountains well. His childhood in San […]
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Until recently, when a Massachusetts shellfish warden needed to know how much rain had fallen overnight before deciding whether to close a shellfishing area, the process might look something like this: call a local resident who happened to own a rain gauge, ask for the measurement, write it down, and use that number to make […]
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Source: Mel Melcon / Getty When it comes to ultra-processed food, research shows that Black Americans pay a steeper health price. Now California is betting a simple label can help. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2244 on Sept. 28, creating a first-in-the-nation label that marks foods as not ultra-processed, the governor’s office announced. The […]
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The add-on was introduced as Trump boasted about the special mission that preceded the war, Operation Midnight Hammer, in which Trump directed the U.S. military to destroy nuclear facilities in Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan in June 2025. “They went from Missouri and then at one o’clock in the morning, with no moon, dark as can […]
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