Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from MIT

Still No Pseudonymity for Sorority Members Suing to Challenge Sorority's Admission of Transgender Student

From Judge Alan Johnson's decision today in Doe v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity (D. Wyo.) (the "fraternity" is really a sorority), declining to reconsider an earlier decision: I yearn for the day where litigants seek their courts unburdened by the mere possibility of physical reprisal. That hope may be quixotic…

Reason

Commentary: Pinned to the right

One would not have expected Benjamin Netanyahu and Kevin McCarthy to have very much in common. One is the second son of a famed and brilliant scholar, whose elder brother, by all accounts his father’s favorite, was killed in one of most audacious and celebrated rescue missions in his nation’s…

Tribune News Service

Ohio Republican lawmaker falsely claims to be MIT graduate

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says a freshman state lawmaker in Ohio falsely claimed to have graduated from the prestigious university

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Ethernet co-inventor finally bags a Turing Award, half a century later

Dubbing their invention the "Ether Network", Bob Metcalf and co. gave real substance to the long-tailed metaphysical concept of the ether.

PC Gamer

LEGO-Inspired Robots Could Solve the Biggest Hurdles in Moon Exploration

Student-led team from MIT developed Walking Oligometric Robotic Mobility Systems (WORMS) robot.

Inverse

MIT Electric Vehicle Team Is Working On An Open-Source Hydrogen Bike

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electric Vehicle Team is currently working on a hydrogen-powered motorcycle design, testing a small Doosan fuel cell.

RideApart

DeepMind's AI used to develop tiny 'syringe' for injecting gene therapy and tumor-killing drugs

Researchers used the AI system AlphaFold to develop a tiny "syringe" that can inject proteins into cells.

LiveScience

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to interfere with an ATF check on a gun store in Georgia

Georgia congresswoman attempted to disrupt ATF inspection after gun store owner called GOP allies

The Independent UK

Rhodes ready to take his place in WrestleMania spotlight

Cody Rhodes will face Roman Reigns in the main event of this year’s WrestleMania on April 2 looking to write the final chapter of a story that began seven years ago when he left the company

The Independent UK

Exxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities

Students at Princeton describe unease that Exxon employee had an office on campus, while dozens of universities have big oil links

The Guardian - US

To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades

Amid growing concerns about mental health, some schools seek to ease the pressure on first-year students. Critics say this "ungrading" amounts to coddling and could set them up for failure.

WEKU

MIT tested 1,000 Oreo cookies to crack the mystery of the best way to eat one

‘We also tested the cookies by hand-twisting, peeling, pressing, sliding and doing other basic motions to get an Oreo apart,’ the study’s author says

The Independent UK

MIT professor reveals key to maintaining healthy brain function and averting dementia

‘I think that if you just keep a routine, you know, you do it,’ professor says

The Independent UK

Scott Burns: Can you live on Social Security benefits and nothing else in Texas?

Is it possible to live on Social Security benefits and nothing else?

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

College hopefuls and their parents have different choices for their top ‘dream school’ this year

High schoolers’ top pick is costly and difficult to get into.

Inverse

A New Universal Covid-19 Vaccine Could Stop Future Variants in Their Tracks

Here's How a New Covid-19 Vaccine Might Protect Us Against Future Variants

The Independent UK

Man, 82, guilty of murdering ex-wife in 1978 after she fled abusive marriage

Christopher Harrisson killed Brenda Page after forcing entry to her flat in Aberdeen.

Financial Times

How Cal Newport rewrote the productivity gospel

His strategies for stressed-out knowledge workers have sold 2mn books. What does he know that we don’t?

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

Binance once tried to hire SEC Chair Gary Gensler

The SEC chair rejected the offer, and those of several other companies, while he worked at MIT from 2018 to 2021.

The Conversation

The retention problem: Women are going into tech but are also being driven out

By 2029, there will be 3.6 million computing jobs in the U.S., but there will only be enough college graduates with computing degrees to fill 24% of these jobs. For decades, the U.S. has poured resources into improving gender representation in the tech industry. However, the numbers are not improving…

The Guardian - US

Fossil fuel companies donated $700m to US universities over 10 years

Funding at 27 universities can shift not just research agendas, but also policy in the direction the industry prefers, report says

Daily Record

Scots cops probing Greenock 'shooting' appeal for footage from public

The victim, named locally as dad-of-three Neil Wilson, was found seriously injured at a home in the Inverclyde town at 1.15am.

Zenger

These Trailblazers Were America’s 1st Black Meteorologists

When people of color were breaking into roles previously denied, African Americans became the first Black meteorologists

Inverse

This Pill Sensor Could Track Digestive Conditions In Never-Before-Seen Detail

A new pill-sized ingestible device uses an electromagnetic field to offer real-time updates on the digestive system to doctors.

The Independent UK

Smart pill could help doctors pinpoint digestive difficulties – study

The sensor can be monitored as it moves through the digestive tract and help diagnose digestive disorders.

1 … 23 24 25 26

People

Marjorie Taylor Greene

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.