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Five high schoolers awarded MIT OMEGA scholarships for intergenerational efforts

Oct 16, 2024

The MIT AgeLab awards annual scholarships to high school students who lead or develop intergenerational programs — initiatives designed to bring together younger and older people — in their communities....

MIT students build connections with Black and Indigenous Brazilians to investigate culture and the environment

Oct 16, 2024

“It seemed like the natural next step was to take students to Brazil so they could experience its incredible culture, art, and activism for themselves,” he remembers. Undergraduates from across...

Kissinger, giant of statecraft, molded post-war US history

Oct 16, 2024

In an unprecedented arrangement that demonstrated his absolute influence, for two years Kissinger remained national security advisor while serving as secretary of state. As part of a strategy of isolating...

Remote collaborations deliver fewer scientific breakthroughs, says Oxford co-led research

Oct 16, 2024

The researchers’ key finding was that, while remote collaboration has the potential to deliver new and creative scientific ideas through easier access to a global knowledge pool, it is harder...

A snowstorm brings Munich airport to a standstill and causes travel chaos in central Europe

Oct 16, 2024

BERLIN (AP) — All flights were grounded at Munich’s airport Saturday after a winter storm dumped snow across southern Germany and parts of Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, affecting...

Made-to-order diagnostic tests may be on the horizon

Oct 16, 2024

McGill University researchers have made a breakthrough in diagnostic technology, inventing a ‘lab on a chip’ that can be 3D-printed in just 30 minutes. Notably, the capillaric chips can be...

Friday essay: can marriage be feminist? – a ‘hopeless romantic’ says no, but a same-sex newlywed says yes

Oct 16, 2024

I just don’t have anything new or interesting to say about marriage – including as a feminist. For every declaration of “love is love”, another guest matches it with a...

House votes to expel indicted Rep. George Santos from Congress

Oct 16, 2024

Santos had already put his winter jacket on, left the chamber and sped through the speaker’s lobby before the vote total was announced. “The chair announces to the House that,...

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

Oct 16, 2024

That’s because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic information, in their first months. But a new study suggests that phonetic information is learnt too late and slowly for...

Alien haze, cooked in a lab, clears view to distant water worlds

Oct 16, 2024

They are the first to determine how much haze can form in water planets beyond the solar system, Hörst said. Haze consists of solid particles suspended in gas, and it...