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New asthma medicine restrictions will hurt the poorest children the most

Apr 13, 2023

Last week, without warning, the federal government significantly restricted the subsidy for an important and safe asthma medicine for children. The importance of asthma preventionWhen a child has asthma, inflammation...

Nelson Yuan-sheng Kiang, influential researcher in human hearing science, dies at 93

Apr 12, 2023

SHBT is now part of the Division of Medical Sciences at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Kiang was also the founding director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories (EPL) at Massachusetts Eye and...

Severe droughts devastate eucalyptus trees that pre-date Ice Age

Apr 12, 2023

12 April 2023Researchers documenting the loss of red stringybark trees in the Clare Valley, SA. Two severe droughts driven by climate change since 2000 are blamed for “staggering losses” of...

Texas county weighs closing local library after federal judge orders banned books returned to circulation

Apr 12, 2023

The Llano County commissioners have scheduled for Thursday a special meeting in which the first item on the agenda is whether to "continue or cease operations" at the library. The...

José Maria Neves, president of Cape Verde, tours MIT

Apr 12, 2023

“This community is extremely important to Cape Verde.” He also linked his country’s success in governance to the global connections it has maintained. “Cape Verde is a free country, a...

Benjamin Mangrum receives the 2023 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Apr 12, 2023

Benjamin Mangrum, assistant professor of literature at MIT, has been awarded the 2023 Levitan Prize in the Humanities. Mangrum will use the award to support research for his upcoming book,...

New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity

Apr 12, 2023

The findings, from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration involving researchers from the University of Cambridge, provide further support to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has been the foundation of...

Eye spy: building inspectors may soon be shooting laser beams, saving the construction industry millions of dollars

Apr 11, 2023

11 April 2023New eye-tracking technologies being developed by Australian engineers to identify building defects early in the construction process could save companies millions of dollars, time, and resources. “The augmented...

3 Questions: Yossi Sheffi on AI and the future of the supply chain

Apr 11, 2023

Will that change as artificial intelligence becomes a bigger part of supply chains? MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi explores these topics in a new book, “The Magic Conveyor Belt: AI, Supply...

Fifth victim dies in Louisville bank shooting: Woman, 57, passes away in hospital

Apr 11, 2023

A fifth victim of the Louisville bank shooting has died in hospital, police confirmed on Monday evening, as the company says there are 'no adequate words' to tell of their...