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Visionary Hungarian-American scientist foresaw the potential of renewable power

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After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

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Researchers at MIT suggest that indoor relative humidity may have an affect on the transmission of COVID-19.

While scientists have long conducted research in space, a new generation of above-Earth labs could be run remotely and even help humans venture to Mars.

Do Colleges Set Asian Quotas? Newsweek, February 9, 1987. With a mix of awe and animosity, students in the Boston area joke that MIT stands for Made in Taiwan. Like many of the nation's most competitive schools, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has experienced huge increases in Asian-American enrollments. Across…