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MIT affiliates named 2024 HHMI Investigators

Oct 20, 2024

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced its 2024 investigators, four of whom hail from the School of Science at MIT: Steven Flavell, Mary Gehring, Mehrad Jazayeri, and Gene-Wei...

We’d move if we could: Over half of Aussies eye smaller towns for better housing and family life

Oct 20, 2024

A study by the University of South Australia found 53% of people living in large cities (population of more than 100,000) would be willing to move to a mid-sized city...

The master of mutations

Oct 20, 2024

Each cell’s genome copy is prone to errors: in the act of duplication, and the bruising experience of staying alive. Cancer is a painful example of how somatic mutations can...

Q&A: “As long as you have a future, you can still change it”

Oct 20, 2024

A: We tend to think of feng shui as a popular design mechanism today. While this isn’t completely inaccurate, there was much more to it than that in Chinese history,...

Collaborating to advance LEADing-edge digital financial infrastructure

Oct 20, 2024

The grant aims to create knowledge sharing opportunities for central bank leaders and help low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) design and scale central bank operations and digital public infrastructure (DPI)....

Flying high to enable sustainable delivery, remote care

Oct 20, 2024

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, Fagernæs, Kolden, and Græsdal launched Aviant — a drone delivery service company. Aviant flew blood samples across Norway’s vast countryside to assist...

'Is she Indian or Black?' Trump questions Harris' identity at Black journalists' convention

Oct 20, 2024

"She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican heritage, has long self-identified as both Black and Asian. The...

MSN

Oct 20, 2024

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition and President Nicolas Maduro’s government were locked in a high-stakes standoff after each side claimed victory in a presidential vote that millions in the...

Venezuela’s Maduro and opposition are locked in standoff as both claim victory in presidential vote

Oct 20, 2024

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition and President Nicolas Maduro’s government were locked in a high-stakes standoff after each side claimed victory in a presidential vote that millions in the...

MSN

Oct 20, 2024

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition and President Nicolas Maduro’s government were locked in a high-stakes standoff after each side claimed victory in a presidential vote that millions in the...