MIT graduate student John David Minnich created a dataset revealing strong evidence of foreign technology transfer regulations showing up in a cluster of “objectively strategically important industries,” but not in others, like semiconductors, affecting China's economic leverage.
John Tirman, an MIT scholar in political theory and expert on U.S.-Iran relations and human security, has died at age 72. Tirman served as the executive director of and principal research scientist at the MIT Center for International Studies.
It was in 1859 when British naturalist Charles Darwin published the work that’s still considered the basis of evolutionary biology. With On the Origin of Species, he introduced the scientific world to the concept of natural selection in plants and animals. He based his theory on a lifetime of observations, including those made 28 years […]
Why the Japanese media has refused to identify the “religious group” that formed the motive for the killing must remain as speculation at this juncture, though it reflects very poorly on Japan’s status as a democratic nation.