Keeping secrets is hard. Kids know it. Celebrities know it. National security experts know it, too.
And it’s about to get even harder.
There’s always someone who wants to get at the juicy details we’d rather keep hidden. Yet…
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2023-24 | MIT News
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 12th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
The full 2024 edition of the…
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Study weighs distant supermassive black holes
Near the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy sits an immense “supermassive” black hole that astronomers call Sagittarius A*.
Scientists theorise that the black hole grew in tandem with our galaxy, and suspect that similar phenomena are at the heart…
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Six with MIT ties win 2023 Hertz Foundation Fellowships | MIT News
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has announced that it has awarded graduate fellowships to six students with ties to MIT. These prestigious awards provide each student with five years of doctoral-level research…
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Here’s how we could begin decoding an alien message using math
One of the most famous messages ever beamed to space was a string of 1,679 bits sent by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974. But if E.T. sent us such a string, how could we Earthlings even begin to decode it? A new mathematical approach…
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Chimú Culture constructed 10 km wall to protect capital against El Niño events
Archaeologists conducting a study of the Muralla La Cumbre, a 10 km wall in northern Peru, have concluded that the Chimú Culture constructed the wall to protect the capital of Chan Chan against El Niño events.
The Chimú culture emerged around…
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New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery | MIT News
Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold potential treatments for a variety of diseases, such as cancer or heart disease. Ideally, scientists would like to experimentally test each of these compounds against all possible…
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Tracking the Winds of Climate Change – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
In the tropics, above the equatorial rainforests and oceans, the strong solar radiation hitting Earth propels a stream of warm, moist air far upward. Once reaching the upper atmosphere, this stream moves in both hemispheres toward the poles; it…
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Arid regions of South Africa were once home to ancient lakes
Recently discovered evidence supporting the existence of ancient lakes in remarkably dry areas of South Africa indicates that Stone Age humans may have inhabited a more extensive range across the continent than initially believed.
A study led by…
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