Astronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that quest is still ...

The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 highlights the top institutions excelling in biological sciences, a field crucial for advancements in health, agriculture, and environmental ...

Pi Day is celebrated annually on March 14, because its numerical date aligns with the first three digits of the mathematical constant π, 3.14. And in some places, particularly Massachusetts colleges, ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a free pi day pie potluck, comedy against cancer, Mobius performance art called “Slay,” Ukrainian folk-rock, a St. Patrick’s fun ...

Chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan is taking on the CEO role at Intel, three months after former CEO Patrick Gelsinger was ...

Federal officials say a 60 colleges have been warned they could face “potential enforcement actions” over alleged campus ...

Most people are familiar with loopholes. When your boss, landlord, partner, customer, or government asks you to do something you don’t want to do, and yet you can’t say “no,” you may resort to ...

Dr. Matthew Anderson was appointed co-director of the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre, a partnership between the ...

An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.

Advanced transmission technologies could sidestep permitting challenges and clear the bottleneck holding up hundreds of ...

Indian American mechanical engineering professor will lead MIT’s only program specifically focused on water and food for ...

A new survey of college-bound students found that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is now the most desirable school, ...