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Fifty years ago this spring, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century was published. Written for the Club of Rome by Donella Meadows and colleagues at MIT, The Limits to Growth used new computer models to forecast an uncontrollable collapse in the global population and economy if…

The Federal Reserve appears firm on its commitment to implement multiple interest rate hikes in 2022 to curb runaway inflation. Amid widespread market uncertainties and an anticipated economic slowdown, we think it could be wise to bet on quality stocks KT (KT) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTTYY), which possess…

The musician’s ex and Tesla titan announced last month that he’d reached an agreement to buy the platform for $44bn

Researchers at MIT have developed new manufacturing techniques that allow for thin speakers that use a fraction of the electricity of a normal audio setup.

The mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19 owe a lot to the work of Robert Langer, a pioneer in the delivery of mRNA. Langer, who is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology David H. Koch Institute Professor and director of the Langer Lab, helped lay the foundation for the underlying delivery mechanism…

Echo 1 launched to space in the 1960s — on April 24, 1962, it made history by transmitting the first television broadcast via satellite, transforming global communications in the process.

The Limits to Growth is still “as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.”

In this edition of Inverse Daily, read stories about a new kind of star explosion, why Oreos always crack when you split the cookie, and more.

A PhD candidate at MIT wrote a paper looking at the fluidics of creme in an Oreo cookie, and how twisting the cookies results in the creme adhering to one side.