The integrated circuit emerged out of Cold War concerns. Since then integrated chips have moved from ballistic missile systems into everyday life.

Better photosynthesis, bomb-sniffing spinach, and that’s just the start of the ways plants are inspiring scientific innovation.

Meet J. J. Thomson, who disproved Einstein’s dictum that the man “who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so.”

The biochemical engineer and entrepreneur on her hopes for a better, postpandemic society.

Elia Kazan’s 1950 film noir finds new relevance in a moment gripped by pandemic and social unrest.

The MIT chemical engineer and entrepreneur talks about Moderna Therapeutics, a company he helped start, and his work developing a way for vaccines to self-boost in the body.