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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don’t stare at her chest. If you stare, it’s all over. I recited this sage piece of advice taken from the movie 100 Girls a couple of times before I got to the Hynes Convention Center. It’s difficult ...

America is the land of opportunity. If I work hard enough, I can be whatever I want to be. If I truly want something, I can get it. I will work hard and grow up to be whatever it is that makes me ...

Director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) and actor Tom Cruise took time out to talk to The Tech about their latest venture, Vanilla Sky. Throughout the interview, Cruise found it in his ...

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 ...

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 ...

In response to complaints of cultural insensitivity from members of the MIT community, the Institute has removed an entire OpenCourseWare class linked from a featured spotlight article on MIT’s main ...