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Oxford University to lead tidal energy project for carbon emission reduction and energy security

Jun 26, 2023

The project will also further develop deep collaborative academic-industry partnerships that will help support and deliver future tidal energy technologies and wider research. Professor Richard Willden, Department of Engineering Science‘Co-design...

4 in 10 California residents are considering packing up and leaving, new poll finds

Jun 24, 2023

Californians greatly appreciate the state's diversity, but about 40% of residents are considering leaving, mostly because of the costs. About 60% of residents said it's a state where they feel...

NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies Launches the Jewish Settlements Archival Project

Jun 24, 2023

New York University’s Taub Center for Israel Studies has launched a project to assist researchers in searching for and locating Israeli archival records associated with Jewish settlements in administered territories...

Study: Microtargeting works, just not the way people think

Jun 24, 2023

But targeting political ads using multiple attributes — for instance, ideology, age, and moral values — did not add any further benefit, in the study. “We didn’t find much evidence...

Six with MIT ties win 2023 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

Jun 24, 2023

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has announced that it has awarded graduate fellowships to six students with ties to MIT. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, Brown majored in...

Academic Fields Valuing “Brilliance” Less Welcoming to Women, New Analysis Shows

Jun 23, 2023

Academic fields valuing brilliance are less welcoming to women: Fewer women enter and more women leave these fields, partly due to prevalent gender stereotypes, shows a new analysis of 30...

Meta says it will block news from Facebook, Instagram in Canada

Jun 23, 2023

© Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters Meta has threatened to ban news on their platforms in Canada. Another law passed this year compelling streaming platforms such as Netflix to promote Canadian content to...

B.C. set for a warm summer, but 2021 heat wave unlikely

Jun 22, 2023

set for a warm summer, but 2021 heat wave unlikely Q&AsB.C. is unlikely to see another heat wave on the scale of the devastating 2021 event this summer, but it...

Double disadvantage: Unemployment, youth and electoral participation in the UK

Jun 22, 2023

While less likely to vote, young people are, instead, more likely to experience spells of unemployment at the beginning of their careers. This is similarly problematic, because unemployment experiences decrease...

Envisioning the future of computing

Jun 22, 2023

How will advances in computing transform human society? MIT students contemplated this impending question as part of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize — an essay contest in which...