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Researchers have found that contrails trap heat from the earth surface in the atmosphere.

Researchers with MIT and Harvard Medical School say a study in mice helped them identify the impacts of exercise and high-fat diets on cells, and that the information could lead to the eventual development of drugs that would enhance or mimic the benefits of working out.

The news that a person was hospitalized when a package delivered to a Northeastern University exploded Tuesday prompted other universities in the Boston area to issue alerts. Also Tuesday night, Boston police were investigating a suspicious device in the area of the Museum of Fine Arts, close to Northeastern. More details about that device weren’t immediately available. Boston University...

Authorities were investigating Tuesday night after a package delivered to the building exploded.

Two Massachusetts schools and one in Connecticut were ranked among the top 10 colleges in the country in U.S. News & World report’s latest rankings released Monday. MIT ranked number two, with both Harvard University and Yale University tied with Stanford University for the third spot. Other New England schools included in the top 50 were New Hampshire’s Dartmouth...

The student debt forgiveness plan announced Wednesday by the Biden administration is expected to wipe out remaining loan balances for an estimated 20 million people, but debate over whether it is enough is bringing into focus the rising cost of a college education. Boston University raised its tuition by 4.25% for the coming academic year, its largest jump in 14…

Two new tests have been developed in the Boston area that are designed to predict immunity to COVID-19. MIT has a new blood test that can potentially predict COVID-19 immunity, while Harvard has a different test that uses saliva to detect both the virus and the antibodies. Most people in the United States at this point have some degree of…

Sue O’Connell spoke with Carol Saivetz from the MIT Security Studies Program about a new deal struck to resume grain exports and worries over Russian gas supplies as the war enters its sixth month.

A new report out of MIT, The Future of Energy Storage, took three years to compile and aims to help governments pull fossil fuels out of their electric grids by 2050.

Power plants that currently burn fossil fuels could actually become part of the green power grid by storing renewable energy, according to a new report released Monday by MIT researchers. Prepared over three years, the MIT Energy Initiative’s “The Future of Energy Storage” report aims to provide a road map for governments to take fossil fuels out of their...

Their goal was to answer one question: Is it possible to split an Oreo down the middle and get the same amount of cream on both sides of the wafer?

A ceremony was held Monday to mark nine years since Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier was killed in the days after the Boston Marathon bombings. The MIT Police Department laid a wreath at the Collier Memorial, located on the Cambridge university’s campus — just a couple of miles from Copley Square where thousands of runners crossed the…

Sean Collier was shot during the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

For the last couple of years, standardized tests like the ACT and SAT were dropped as an application requirement for many colleges and universities, as there was too much disruption in education because of the pandemic. But now, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says it’s bringing the testing back as part of the admissions process. “What they’re doing is...

MIT will reinstate SAT, ACT requirement in admissions

With each bomb dropped on Ukraine, and the Russian invasion entering its fourth week, scrutiny is intensifying at home. That includes growing calls for academic institutions to cut ties with Russia. “Our universities have to show they have some moral standing,” said Harvard Ukrainian Institute Manager of Publications Oleh Kotsyuba. As he discussed during NBC10 Boston’s weekly “Russia-Ukraine Q&A”...

College mask policy bars people from asking others to mask

A Harvard scholar is amplifying calls by anti-corruption researchers for Western institutions to stop accepting money with ties to Russia, including some right here in Massachusetts. Harvard University was named in an appeal published by the Anti-Corruption Action Center in Kyiv, urging all Western academic institutions and think tanks to cease any forms of cooperation with Kremlin-connected entities and sponsors….

Carol Saivetz, a senior advisor for the MIT Security Studies program, discusses the latest developments from the war Vladimir Putin’s Russia is waging on Ukraine.

Thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Boston on Sunday, in the largest showing of support for Ukraine that the city has seen since Russian invaded Ukraine last week. “We’re determined. We’re angry. This is our land, not their land, and it’s time for them to go,” said Olena Staveley-O’Carroll, a Massachusetts resident originally from Ukraine. The...