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Nation Jul 14

Trump administration rescinds rule on international students

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Education Jul 13

Harvard University is reflected in the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A lawsuit claims Harvard profited from photos of slaves. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters
More than 200 schools back lawsuit over foreign student rule

More than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy saying international students cannot stay in the country if they take all their classes online in the fall.

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Education Jul 08

Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students

The universities contend that the directive violates the Administrative Procedures Act because officials failed to offer a reasonable basis justifying the policy and because the public was not given notice to comment on it.

By Associated Press

Arts Jan 21

Watch 4:52
How Polaroid pioneered the instant photography revolution

The Polaroid camera bypassed the entire process of film development, thus providing photographers an immediate look at their work. Released for sale in 1948, the first version was an “instant” hit. Now, the museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

By Jared Bowen, GBH

Science Nov 15

Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant near Belchatow, Poland on November 28, 2018. Inventors claim a new carbon capture “battery” could be retrofitted for industrial plants but also for mobile sources of CO2 emissions like cars and airplanes. Photo by REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
This new ‘battery’ aims to spark a carbon capture revolution

Inventors claim their carbon capture “battery” could return CO2 to preindustrial levels within 40 years, but first it has some economic hurdles to overcome.

By Nsikan Akpan

Sep 08

Director of MIT’s Media Lab steps down over Epstein ties

By Associated Press

The director of a prestigious research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology resigned Saturday, and the school's president ordered an independent investigation amid an uproar over the lab's ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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Oct 24

In a crash, should self-driving cars save passengers or pedestrians? 2 million people weigh in

By Jamie Leventhal

Researchers are using an online computer program to gauge how humans respond to tough ethical decisions involving AI technology for driverless vehicles. The results could inform car manufacturers and policy makers on how driverless vehicles should behave in life-or-death scenarios.

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Mar 09

False news travels 6 times faster on Twitter than truthful news

By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American

False news -- inaccurate information presented as truth or opinion presented as fact -- is 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than information that faithfully reports actual events, according to a new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jan 01

These tiny satellites, equipped with ion thrusters, could change how we explore space

By Nsikan Akpan

An engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wants to explore the cosmos with CubeSats and ion engines inspired by static electricity.

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Oct 03

LIGO gravitational wave discoverers win 2017 Nobel Prize in physics

By Nsikan Akpan

Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics for leading the projects that discovered gravitational waves and proved an century-old Einstein theory.

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