MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
The full 2026 edition of the rankings…
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‘Dragon Man’ skull may be the first from an enigmatic human cousin
Meet the new face, and braincase to boot, of Asia’s mysterious Stone Age denizens, the Denisovans.
The nearly complete, roughly 146,000-year-old skull of an adult male was found nearly a century ago, possibly during bridge…
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Gearing up for RoboCupJunior: Interview with Ana Patrícia Magalhães
Action from RoboCupJunior Rescue at RoboCup 2024. Photo: RoboCup/Bart van Overbeeke.
The annual RoboCup event, where teams gather from across the globe to take part in competitions across a…
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From shortage to supremacy: How Sandia and the CHIPS Act aim to reboot US chip power
Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.
While the U.S. was considered a powerhouse in chip production in the 1990s, fabricating more than…
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A sounding board for strengthening the student experience | MIT News
During his first year at MIT in 2021, Matthew Caren ’25 received an intriguing email inviting students to apply to become members of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s (SCC) Undergraduate Advisory Group (UAG)….
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Is nuclear energy good? A new book explores this complex question
Atomic Dreams explores nuclear energy’s future in the U.S. through the history of Diablo Canyon, California’s last operational nuclear power plant.
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Dairy Farm Captures and Cleans Over 80 Percent of Methane Emissions
Learn more about the process some dairy farmers are using to capture methane and turn it into renewable natural gas.
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The Human Music of Oaks and Orchids
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On a crisp April morning, Lucas Gutierrez, a multidisciplinary artist based in…
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Robots that feel heat, pain, and pressure? This new “skin” makes it possible
Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings in a way that’s similar to humans.
The researchers,…
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AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed
An international team of astronomers has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic simulations and artificial intelligence (AI) to tease out new cosmic curiosities about black holes, revealing the one at the center of our Milky Way is…
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