Ariel Ekblaw Wants To Go to Space So We Can Save Earth The 30-year-old founder of MIT’s Space Exploration Initiative is engineering small wonders with a big goal: making sure Earth remains our home. Inverse · Apr 20, 2023
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says 'hallucination problems' still plague A.I. tech and he doesn't know why After Google’s A.I. chatbot invented fake economics books in a demonstration with 60 Minutes, Pichai admitted: 'You can’t quite tell why it said this.' Fortune · Apr 17, 2023
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 · Apr 14, 2023
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 · Apr 10, 2023
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 · Apr 5, 2023
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 · Apr 3, 2023
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 · Apr 1, 2023
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 · Mar 30, 2023
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 · Mar 29, 2023
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 · Mar 28, 2023
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 · Mar 27, 2023
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 · Mar 27, 2023
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 · Mar 26, 2023
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 · Mar 25, 2023
The Independent UK · Mar 23, 2023 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
Tribune News Service · Mar 20, 2023 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?
Fortune · Mar 16, 2023 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 · Mar 13, 2023 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 · Mar 9, 2023 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 · Mar 9, 2023 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?
Fortune · Mar 6, 2023 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 · Mar 3, 2023 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 · Mar 1, 2023 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 · Feb 28, 2023 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 · Feb 15, 2023 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