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One of the immune system’s roles is to detect and kill cells that have acquired cancerous mutations. However, some early-stage cancer cells manage to survive. A new study on colon cancer from MIT and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has identified one reason why: they turn on a gene called SOX17, which renders them essentially invisible…

Alumni leave MIT armed with knowledge and a whole lot of memories. During Tech Reunions in 2023, the MIT Alumni Association asked returning alums what else they had held onto since leaving campus. Here are just a few of their responses.  Check out the recent MIT alumni video about physical objects grads have kept—and why…

In the spring of 1974, I was new to both MIT and rugby football. As a Course 2 graduate student, I shared a basement office with several other students, including two players on the Tech rugby club who encouraged me to join them. Being both an Anglophile and a beer drinker, I was pretty easily…

As an international student at MIT, I find that the privileges I’ve experienced in the States have made me even more conscious of my nation’s struggles. Brief visits home remind me that in Jamaica, I can’t always count on what I often take for granted in Massachusetts: water flowing through the faucet, timely public transportation,…

When I last wrote, the Institute had just announced MIT’s Climate Project. Now that it’s underway, I’d like to tell you a bit more about how we came to launch this ambitious new enterprise.  In the fall of 2022, as soon as I accepted the president’s job at MIT, several of my oldest friends spontaneously…

For a harried wastewater manager, a commercial farmer, a factory owner, or anyone who might want to analyze dozens of water samples, and fast, it sounds almost miraculous. Light beamed from a central laser zips along fiber-optic cables and hits one of dozens of probes waiting at the edge of a field, or at the…

Burhan Azeem ’19 had never been to a city council meeting before he showed up to give a public comment on an affordable-­housing bill his senior year. Walking around Cambridge, he saw a “young, dynamic, racially diverse city,” but when he stepped inside City Hall, most of the others who had arrived to present comments…

In 2017 Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, was invited to a conference in the Netherlands to give a talk about magnetic technologies that she and her team had developed at MIT and how they might be used for deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s disease. After sitting through a long day of lectures, she was struck…

The Traffic Coordination System for Space is designed to rely on minimal government infrastructure and will run on the AWS cloud.

The legendary musician paid the actor $17.2 million for the Hidden Hills residence late last year.

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman were circling the Hasbro board-game adaptation at one point, but Sony is starting fresh.

Set in a near future where every country on Earth has to cull its population by 20 percent, "Humane" examines the socioeconomic inequality of self-sacrifice.

When policymakers both here and abroad deregulated and restructured the electricity industry they made four big mistakes. And we are still living with them.    Number 1: The architects of deregulation, being economists, focused on market structure and operating savings when the big problem facing the industry was increasing capital expenditures and adjusting to climate change. They diverted attention from an existential challenge to achieve modest operating savings that rarely flowed through to consumers. Читать дальше...

EXCLUSIVE: How To Get Away With Murder alumna Aja Naomi King is returning to broadcast as a lead opposite Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb and Ben Rappaport in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC‘s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Fumero), […]

EXCLUSIVE: With his series Baby Reindeer becoming a massive hit for Netflix, Richard Gadd has signed with UTA for representation. Gadd created, wrote all episodes and stars in the new Netflix series Baby Reindeer. Based on his one-man breakout play about his complex experience with a stalker, the series debuted this month to critical acclaim […]

Clue is set to get another crack at the remake treatment. Sony Pictures has landed the TV and film rights to the board game that was turned into the iconic 1985 movie starring Tim Curry. Sony Pictures Television and TriStar Pictures closed the competitive deal with Hasbro Entertainment, which has been shopping the rights about […]

What do Taylor Swift, Deadpool, and industrial grade glycine have in common? Young people are obsessed with all of them.

Tesla’s first-quarter earnings call for 2024 is tonight, and it’s shaping up to be a rough one. The stock is nosediving, and investors desperately want Elon Musk to right the ship — and, in doing so, restore their confidence in the company’s continued ability to generate returns.

We’ve all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC, everything preinstalled, and you’re so excited you’re practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. You’re so engrossed that you forget there’s a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner. It’s Windows 11, a mammoth operating…

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As the end of the season approaches, many fans now look to the summer transfer window and work out potential incomings and outgoings. But one...

Joe Biden on Tuesday arrived in Tampa, Florida to attack the 6-week abortion ban during remarks at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus.

WITH all the gloom hanging over the House of Windsor in the past four months it is lovely to see a smile from the youngest member of the family.

Harriet Dart will face Spain's No. 2 in her first main draw match at the Madrid Open.

“Clue” could soon be heading back to the screen. Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with Sony’s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights for the beloved board game. “Sony is the perfect partner to adapt a property as culturally impactful and mystery-defining as ‘Clue,'” said Hasbro Heads of Film […]