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Letter regarding graduate student unionization election

Apr 13, 2022

The following letter was sent to MIT graduate students, and subsequently shared with the wider MIT community, today by Chancellor Melissa Nobles and Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Education...

MIT welcomes two from the Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship for 2022

Apr 12, 2022

MIT’s School of Science welcomes postdocs Malena Rice and Eva Scheller, recipients of the 2022 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. “Our solar system is the bedrock for understanding how planetary systems...

5 questions for the new rector

Apr 12, 2022

Will you still have time for research now that you’ve been appointed Rector? What matters most is ensuring that the amazing people in my research group continue to thrive and...

Finland's first science satellite, Foresail-1, is ready for space

Apr 12, 2022

Foresail-1, the first satellite from the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space, is ready for space. In the summer, the satellite will be launched on a SpaceX...

Emerging tech can help counter the effects of climate change

Apr 11, 2022

Achieving it would require drastic emissions reductions across all sectors and at all scales. Here are some emerging technologies in the food, transport and energy sectors with great potential to...

What the young think about the natural sciences

Apr 11, 2022

A typology of child knowledgeThe study authors identified four developmental types, differentiated according to their understanding of scientific knowledge. “In this phase, children and adolescents still lack the ability to...

Ukraine war: Putin loses NINTH colonel as tank commander becomes latest Russian officer to be killed

Apr 10, 2022

The statement said Bespalov was the commander of the 59th Guards Tank Regiment, and become the latest senior Russian military officer to be killed in the war that has seen...

'Thirty dead and 100 wounded' as Russian missile hits Ukrainian railway station

Apr 9, 2022

Both Russian and Ukraine both still use the missiles, and the evacuations would have been known about. Meanwhile TASS - another state-run news agency - reported that Donetsk separatist commander...

Five kids among 50 dead as Russian missile with ‘for the children’ scrawled on side blitzes Ukraine train station

Apr 9, 2022

AT LEAST 50 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a Russian missile with "for the children" scrawled on the side blitzed a Ukrainian train station. Horror...

Ocean vital signs

Apr 9, 2022

Each year, the ocean absorbs billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, preventing warming that greenhouse gas would otherwise cause. The team's proposal, “Ocean Vital Signs,” involves sending a...