Feature of the Week: Gwyneth Yau’s unforgettable summer at MIT
On the first morning in Boston, my dad woke me up at 6am for a run near the MIT campus along the Charles River. I usually don ...
Inside Higher Ed2h
Harvard’s Billion-Dollar Disappointment
Harvard’s nearly $1.2 billion fundraising haul fell short of last year’s mark by roughly $200M, following a period of ...
The Harvard Crimson5h
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Lays Off 87 Workers in Restructuring Effort
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced on Oct. 10 that it laid off 87 employees as part of a strategic ...
Opinion
Adirondack Daily Enterprise5hOpinion
Drivers multitask, skirt limits with partial automation
Last week’s article was a call from experts and six U.S. senators for the National Highway Traffic Safety administration to exert more oversight in vehicle automation. Here’s why. In a study of driver ...
Dawn5h
A Nobel way of thinking
He noted that while it’s customary to credit award winners, the Nobel Prize in Economics creates a hierarchy of knowledge ...
The Brown Daily Herald7h
U.S. Representative calls on Paxson to publish plans to protect Jewish students
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) sent a letter to nine university presidents, including President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20, ...
The American Conservative1d
The Suicide Epidemic Demands Fresh Solutions
But, while throwing money at more and more prevention programs may intuitively seem like an appropriate response, only a fool ...
Peer inside the underwater volcanic caves where life thrives
This week, marvel at giant tube worms living beneath hot springs on the ocean floor, watch SpaceX catch a rocket booster, ...
Nobel economics prize: How colonial history explains why strong institutions are vital to a country's prosperity
This year's Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of ...
MIT professor’s Nobel Prize win post goes viral; internet call it ‘too funny’
Daron Acemoglu, along with Simon Johnson and James Robinson, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for their innovative ...
Switchbacks in Space: Scientists Uncover How Solar Wind Gets Energy
Researchers using NASA and ESA spacecraft have uncovered how magnetic switchbacks near the Sun energize the solar wind, ...
Lightbridge President and CEO Seth Grae Interviewed Today on Schwab Network’s “Trading 360”
Lightbridge Corporation (“Lightbridge”) (Nasdaq: LTBR), an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, today announced that Seth Grae, Lightbridge President and Chief Executive Officer, was interviewed ...