If Kiran Desai’s new novel were a mansion, it would be a vast estate with multiple wings built in different styles, full of interconnected rooms and hidden passages. From one room comes the voices of ...

Ambassador Bob Rae is President of the 2025 session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. 31 January 2025 There is nothing ...

The trailblazing artist’s abstract paintings, on view in her first US museum retrospective, are luxurious fields of color and form, each one pulsating with its own energy. The visual dynamism of ...

Everyone loves a mammoth engine. From the rumble it creates with the key in the ignition to the incredible get up and go that a gigantic engine offers, either as a towing solution or in producing huge ...

An interactive map made using GIS showing the rise in fuel prices by percentage displayed where they occur by major highway networks. Maps like this enable us to visualize socioeconomic challenges in ...

Just like real atlases, brain atlases vary widely in scale and content. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every ...

If you were to make a list of requirements for your design software, an ability to be both efficient and accurate would certainly make an appearance. It may even make your top five. In order to cater ...

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Maine As a result of the monthslong Israeli air and ground campaign in northern Gaza Strip, more than 1.8 million of ...

Up to 1.8 million Gazans — around 80 percent of the population — have been forced to leave their homes since Israel began its bombardment in response to Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7. That number is ...

The climate crisis and human displacement are increasingly interconnected. Not only did climate-related disasters trigger more than half of new reported displacements in 2022, but nearly 60 per cent ...

Displacement is a defense mechanism that involves transferring negative feelings from one thing to another. For example, a person angry at their boss may “take out” their anger on a family member. The ...