2 scientists share medicine Nobel for discovery of microRNA

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene......

MIT discusses India's 'institutional riot system'

The challenges posed by terrorism and sectarian violence to India's rule of law and secularism came under focus during a workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,......

MIT expels Indian-origin student for pro-Palestine essay

An Indian-origin student pursuing PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been suspended until January 2026 following his pro-Palestinian activism and is currently appealing the......

Boston shooting: Residents wait for situation to resolve

Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been in a lockdown after a series of events that followed when suspects in the Boston marathon bombing shot Sean Collier, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology......

2 Americans, 1 Brit share 2010 Economics Nobel

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2010 to Peter A. Diamond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,......

'People are the new computers'

Dr Ramesh Raskar, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute Technology's Media Lab, shows a very blurred photo of a car passing a street in Cambridge. He then zooms in on the car's license......

Why India must create its own Bostons and Oxfords

Around the world, universities are the stuff that make great cities. Imagine Boston without Harvard, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and the myriad other institutions that are......

The 'silent plane'

How many times have you cursed whenever an aircraft flew passed your house with that ear-shattering boom?Well, in a few years all that noise would be a thing of the past, thanks to an initiative......