According to a new study, the more attractive you are, the higher your paycheck will be!
Rajat Gupta was convicted in 2012 of passing illegal tips about Goldman Sachs to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam.
Dr Sangeeta N Bhatia, director, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been chosen to the newest class of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
By inviting Bobby Jindal to his ranch and fueling speculation that the young Louisiana governor could be a candidate for the vice-presidential slot, John McCain is reaching out to the far right of the Republican party that has been enamoured with Jindal in recent months and have been suggesting his name as a possible running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
A 30-member team of CEOs from leading Indian automobile components companies will be participating in a five-day orientation programme at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on product design and development.
Rajiv Ramakrishnan, an undergraduate at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been doing his bit to help the United Nations achieve its Millennium Development Goals for the advancement of the world's poor. This includes eradication of poverty and provision of health and education to all.
Six Indian-American high school juniors and 19 others, all named 'Leaders of Tomorrow', will discuss ways to heal the ills faced by society at a meeting later this month on the Bentley College campus at Waltham, Massachusetts. The students are winners of the 2008 Tomorrow 25, an international leadership competition for high school juniors organised by Bentley College, in cooperation with Time magazine.
Men like to send a lot of messages to attractive female users on dating sites, a new study has revealed.
India-born Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Chile University have received the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Experts said the tensions have added to a sense of apprehension in the United States, Europe and parts of Asia that China will engage in more aggressive behaviour in pursuit of its territorial interests, which in turn has raised the possibility of a serious and coordinated pushback by leading global players.
Want to improve your intelligence? Well, then all you need to do is get smart about what you eat, suggests a new study in mice.
Romney's decision leaves Republican front-runner John McCain as the top man standing in the Republican race, with Mike Huckabee far behind in the race.
An 18-year-old 'exceptionally promising' high school senior from Andover, Massachusetts, was among 28 students named by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation last week as recipients of its up to $30,000 per year scholarship for four years of college education. Veda Eswarappa was the only Indian American among the 28 students from lower-income backgrounds named for the prestigious scholarship that the non-profit foundation gives every year to high-achieving lower-income students.
'There was a time between 1985 to the mid-1990s when computing power was with the chip. Then till 2005, the power was with network. We have now just entered a phase where the power will be with the people. People are the new computers,' says Dr Ramesh Raskar, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute Technology's Media Lab.
Feeling the pinch because of the rising costs of fuel, Americans long used to gas guzzling vehicles with power and speed are steadily moving to smaller and energy efficient cars, says an Indian professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
An Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai (IIT) alumnus has come up with instructions on how to make a flying carpet, just like the one in Walt Disney's creation 'The Arabian Nights'.
Consul General of India in New York Neelam Deo outlined a series of steps taken by the Government of India to promote investment and competitive entrepreneurship in India. Deo touched on several sectors, and cited the Nano car, introduced by the Tata group, as an example of how Indian entrepreneurship is introducing efficiency in production to reduce the cost.
James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize 2013 on Monday for solving the mystery of how the cell organises its transport system. The winners will share equally the prize sum of eight million Swedish kronor (USD 1.25 million), reduced because of the economic crisis last year from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001.
Accenture has entered into a pact with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to train its employees for individual and professional development.
A Pakistani woman, who mysteriously disappeared five years ago, having alleged links with the al Qaeda, was arraigned in a New York federal court on the charges of attempting to kill American soldiers and officials in Afghanistan and a bail hearing was set for Monday.
Tips for nabbing government grants.
The Indo-US civil nuclear deal, climate change, and developments in Pakistan are likely to figure in the discussions that John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel will have with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and some other leaders.
Fewer than half of Americans plan to go to sports events, concerts, movies and amusement parks when they reopen to the public until there is a proven coronavirus vaccine. That includes those who have attended such events in the past, an ominous sign for the sports and entertainment industries hoping to return to the spotlight after being shut down by the pandemic.
As with the last 37 years, this year too the India Day Parade in New York saw thousands of Indian Americans throng Manhattan's Madison Avenue to celebrate India's Independence Day. For the thousands of Indians who turned up, it was a once in a year chance to showcase their country's rich cultural diversity.
To put things in perspective, Americans constitute 5 per cent of the global population, but consume about 40 per cent of the global resources.
Senator John McCain has won the Florida Republican primary, relegating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to second place.The victory further established Arizona senator McCain as the front runner in the Republican presidential race. Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton won the Florida Democratic presidential primary. Clinton scored a comfortable victory over rival Senator Barack Obama by receiving 48 per cent of the vote with 19 per cent of the vote counted.
The only Indian university in THE world rankings this year.
Meanwhile, in a major setback to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Illinois Senator Barack Obama secured the victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating mode that is more fuel efficient and equally clean.
Nancy Barry, president of NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty and former president of Women's World Banking, is set to have an Ahmedabad connection.
Ten young under-40 innovators and entrepreneurs of South Asian origin will be given the Global Indus Technovators Awards at a ceremony at MIT on Monday.
'There is indeed a link between BCG vaccination and resistance to COVID-19.'
Imagine that the particles visible in turbulent water are like an army of ants being chased through a bowl of mixed-up red and blue spaghetti.
Air travellers have come to recognise as routine the gut-wrenching sensation they experience as their flight jostles after hitting an 'air-pocket'-- scientifically known as turbulence.
The Kennedys have put their considerable clout behind Barack Obama's campaign to be the first coloured man to be President of the United States of America.
With about 80 per cent of the precincts reporting, Romney, who earlier lost the Iowa and New Hampshire votes, had 39 per cent of ballots in his his native state, McCain 30 per cent and Mike Huckabee 16 per cent.
The Graduate Record Examination is not very difficult. Really!
As general computing systems become smaller, we are reaching a point at which it becomes conceivable to don these devices easily, says Andy Fagg of the University of Massachusetts.
Srikanth Bolla, CEO of Bollant Industries, has set his sights on changing lives
Those who ditched the sun, a study has revealed, looked up to 20 years younger.
