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As Omicron fuels surge, U.S. students stage walkouts to protest in-person classes

Jan 16, 2022

About 600 young people from 11 Boston schools participated in student walkouts there, according to the school district, which serves nearly 52,000 pupils. Many protesting students returned to classrooms later,...

U.S. grocery shortages deepen as pandemic dries supplies

Jan 16, 2022

"We typically will ship, East Coast to West Coast – we used to do it for about $7,000," he said. SpartanNash, a U.S. grocery distributor, last week said it has...

Richard Cohen: Pioneering biomedical research and education at MIT for half a century

Jan 16, 2022

He is a rare “MIT lifer,” rising from student to senior faculty member and spending half a century at the Institute. Throughout his career, Cohen has exemplified the role of...

Making computation come alive

Jan 16, 2022

I thought that was one of the most interesting things we did.”The course, launched last fall, is designed to teach students how computation collides with the physical world. The half-semester...

Astronomers find origin of stars that surround Earth

Jan 16, 2022

The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? The paper’s central figure, a 3D spacetime animation, reveals that...

MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before antibiotic use

Jan 16, 2022

The new study also found high levels of MRSA in swabs taken from hedgehogs across their range in Europe and New Zealand. The discovery of this centuries-old antibiotic resistance predates...

A dirt-cheap solution? Common clay materials may help curb methane emissions

Jan 16, 2022

The process has several advantages over other approaches to removing methane from air, Plata says. The method converts the methane into carbon dioxide. That might sound like a bad thing,...

Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years ago

Jan 16, 2022

The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognised as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. An international team of scientists, led by the University...

Early-career researchers win major European grants

Jan 16, 2022

Nine Cambridge researchers have risen to the top of over 4,000 proposals to secure prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, the most achieved by any UK institution. Dr Eves-van...

Samurai, Darwin, the Poet Laureate and some very Curious Cures

Jan 16, 2022

Darwin in Conversation has been curated using the 15,000 letters Darwin wrote during his lifetime, the majority of which are housed at the University Library in Cambridge in the largest...