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Washington, Feb. 27: A new international study warns that the human race faces disaster within the next 100 years, unless it collectively brakes current rate of growth. The study calls for urgent efforts to create a new, powerkeyed "world of non-growth" "that would ensure that human society can survive indefinitely…

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is severing ties with a research university it helped establish in Russia, citing the country’s “unacceptable” invasion of Ukraine

Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits.

When Mario Draghi convened his Cabinet two days after his failed bid for president, he shook hands with each minister and congratulated them for Italy’s economic rebound last year. Then he gave them 48 hours to submit their plans for the next phase of economic rebuilding, according to people briefed…

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization, has been named the keynote speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s commencement

Novel legal strategy argues that Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Vanderbilt are legally obliged to put the public interest first

A research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced it has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) mixed with a bit of synthetic polymer. The researchers found the cellulose-based composite is stronger and tougher than some types of bone. In a study published Feb.13 in the…

From solar-powered vaccine storage boxes to testing labs that fit into a backpack, the pandemic has unleashed powerful examples of human ingenuity. Esra Arahu rounds up some of the most creative efforts that aim to mitigate the impact of Covid-19.

From yesterday's Report and Recommendation by Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell (D. Mass.) in Koppel v. Moses: [According to the Complaint,] Koppel and Moses at one point were friends and fellow MIT graduate students. Both belonged to a student-run computer science club called the Student Information Processing Board ("SIPB"), which Moses…

Turkey’s intelligence and security authorities have exposed a network of 14 members cooperating with Iranian intelligence to abduct Iranian opposition members on Turkish soil. On Friday, Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) uncovered another plot directed by Iran to assassinate an Israeli-Turkish businessperson using a network of alleged hitmen.

Turkish spies thwarted a plot orchestrated by Iran to kill an Israeli-Turkish businessman based in Istanbul, a pro-government daily reported Friday. Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) discovered a network of nine operatives dubbed an "Iran assassination team" plotting to kill Yair Geller, the Sabah daily reported. Geller has businesses in…