At the end of the fiscal year, MIT’s endowment funds totaled $24.6 billion, excluding pledges. As such, endowment funds are used for Institute activities including education, research, campus renewal, faculty...
To stop the bleeding, doctors often apply pressure to the wound and seal the site with medical glue. Drawing inspiration from nature, researchers from McGill University have developed a medical...
In 2020, one in three IVF cycles undertaken by couples trying to conceive was due to male infertility or a combination of male and female infertility, a new report by...
One in eight people in Australia is living in poverty, as cost of living pressures increaseA UNSW Sydney and ACOSS partnership research report shows people in poverty are falling behind...
Last week, the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children found Indigenous women are eight times more likely to be murdered. Public hearings have officially commenced into...
WR140 episodically puffs out plumes of dust stretching thousands of times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. These dust plumes, produced every eight years, give astronomers a unique...
But researchers from McGill University, MIT, and Cornell University have taken a step in this direction. They have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can learn the rules and...
Many soil hotspots of high ecological value aren't under any form of conservation. The findings in Nature highlight the need to prioritise soils, their biodiversity, and their critical services in...
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have now discovered a stellar binary, or pair of stars, with an extremely short orbit, appearing to circle each other every 51 minutes. The newly...
The event featured remarks from former White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, who is Taylor’s great-granddaughter — and whose cousins discovered Taylor’s 1892 diploma in their attic last year. After...