The Latest Breaking News from MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named Ethereum’s (CRYPTO: ETH) upcoming transition to a proof-of-stake blockchain to its list of top technological breakthroughs for 2022.

The excitement over 2018 claims of discovery of light from the universe’s first stars (cosmic dawn) seems to have hit a roadblock in Bengaluru. City-based Raman Research Institute on Monday claimed their experiments have refuted claims by Arizona State University (ASU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that they discovered…

A new drone flyover video over the Tesla Giga Austin plant, recorded on February 27, reveals a growing number of new Made-in-Texas (MIT) Tesla Model Y.

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.