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Twitter workers face a reality they’ve long feared: Elon Musk as owner

Apr 27, 2022

© Eric Risberg/AP The Twitter page of Elon Musk on Monday, the day he reached an agreement to buy Twitter for about $44 billion. Twitter employees reacted with shock and...

A new state of the art for unsupervised computer vision

Apr 27, 2022

To discover these objects without a human’s helpful guidance, STEGO looks for similar objects that appear throughout a dataset. Since STEGO can learn without labels, it can detect objects in...

Five MIT PhD students awarded 2022 J-WAFS fellowships for water and food solutions

Apr 26, 2022

Two students were named Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellows for Water Solutions and three students were named J-WAFS Graduate Student Fellows. New this year, fellowship nominations were open not only to...

What choices does the world need to make to keep global warming below 2 C?

Apr 26, 2022

Each nation was left to its own devices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with the 2 C target. The MIT study focuses on projections through the year 2100...

An Interactive Sustainability Dashboard for Montreal and beyond

Apr 26, 2022

That is essentially what three McGill professors have assembled with Sus – a new, interactive and fully bilingual English and French-language sustainability dashboard for the Montreal urban area will be...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Drug Use—and How It Contributes to Overdose Risk

Apr 26, 2022

Drug overdoses have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, with U.S. overdose deaths topping 100,000 during the 12-month period ending in April 2021. Anxiety and depression are associated with increased substance...

Luke's swing

Apr 26, 2022

Twelve-year-old Luke Noppenberger has an insatiable curiosity about how things work. Luke's school occupational and physical therapists recommended the specially modified swing to help improve his trunk support, balance, and...

Elon Musk likens Bill Gates to controversial pregnant man emoji in scathing tweet

Apr 24, 2022

Tesla founder Elon Musk dissed Bill Gates' gut on Twitter today, posting a photo of the Microsoft mogul alongside Apple's controversial pregnant man emoji 'in case you need to kill...

Earth Day panel examines a way forward on climate change

Apr 24, 2022

John Holdren took his wife and kids, both still toddlers in strollers, to the first Earth Day celebration in California in 1970. “Today, of course, climate change looms very large...

Using plant biology to address climate change

Apr 24, 2022

Promoting crop resilienceFor most of human history, climate change occurred gradually, over hundreds or thousands of years. However, human-driven climate change has occurred much more quickly, and crop plants have...