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As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s. But another part of his legacy has received renewed attention amid the nation’s reckoning with racial justice: his role in shaping the nation’s hardline policies toward Native Americans as a former head of the U.S....

COVID-positive individuals have reported experiencing a fever, cough, shortness of breath and many other symptoms associated with the virus. But how long does it take for symptoms to appear once a person has been exposed? And when is COVID the most transmissible? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the incubation period, the time from exposure to when…

Oliver “Ollie” Smoot didn’t expect to become a lasting legend when he came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but that all changed the night his fraternity used his body to measure a bridge . A younger Ollie was chosen by Lambda Chi Alpha to become a measurement painted on Harvard Bridge decades ago. Now the “smoot” is an official…

Boston’s Harvard Bridge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is covered in “smoots.” Learn about the origin of this real measurement from Ollie Smoot himself, and discover some of the lesser-known secrets it holds.

Princeton University maintained its spot as the highest-ranked university in the country.

If fusion can be achieved on earth and commercialized, it will provide a nearly unlimited source of clean energy without producing the waste of nuclear fission.

The highly-anticipated sequel to the 2018 Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther” spent the past several days filming on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, giving students and faculty a glimpse of all the action. Eyewitnesses spotted crews filming near the student center and on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. “They had some race cars around and a motorcycle and there were rumors…

A new Marvel movie will be filming at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this weekend, Boston.com reported.  According to the report, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” will film at the Cambridge university from Friday to Monday. The report is based on an email Boston.com obtained, informing students that a movie titled “Summer Break” would be filmed on campus. “Summer Break”...

A Grim Look at Our Planet’s Future. Sergey Paltsev of MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Joins Current to Talk About the U.N.’S Latest Climate Report.

With the delta variant spreading and the fall semester looming, colleges across Massachusetts are scrambling to make decisions about COVID-19 protocols. Boston University, MIT and Harvard have all decided to keep their indoor mask mandates in place. Students and staff will be required to mask up indoors regardless of vaccination status. Northeastern University and Boston College are among the schools…

The Boston area’s subway system faces a severe threat from rising seas over the next 50 years that could cause flooding and cut critical links around the city, according to a new study.

Researchers from Harvard University and MIT are working to develop a mask that would detect the presence of coronavirus.

Wyss Institute, MIT develop a mask to detect if you have Covid

Court documents reveal new details of the case against Qinxuan Pan, a Massachusetts man suspected of killing a Yale graduate student.

Taking classes at MIT is tough enough, but with one graduate student taking care of a new baby at the same time, a professor’s gesture to make things a little easier for her has garnered a lot of attention.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has generated oxygen from the atmosphere of Mars, thanks in part to a team of researchers at MIT.

Two months after the murder of U.S. Army veteran and Yale University student Kevin Jiang, the man suspected in his death is still at large in what has now become an international manhunt, NBC News reports. At the request of the U.S. Marshals, an international “red notice” warrant has been issued for Qinxuan Pan on Interpol. The warrant, as described by Interpol,...

Sue O’Connell sat down with Vipin Narang, associate professor of political science at MIT, to talk about North Korea’s recent tests and what it means for relations with the U.S. going forward.

Two Massachusetts high school students talk about their discovery of four exoplanets 200 light years away. They did it as part of a one-year program with scientists from MIT and Harvard. Their mentor also explained just how many exoplanets there are out there still to be discovered.

Lack of digital skills in the management of the largest companies is holding back innovation and financial performance, new data from MIT researchers shows.