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ICE says international students must take classes in person; TikTok planning to pull out of Hong Kong; More students return to school in South Africa
Arts, Culture & Media
Making Friends with Drones
There are curious parallels between "love" between two particles and two people.
Arts
Love, quantum physics and ‘entanglement’
MIT professor Rainer Weiss dreamed up the idea behind an antennae so sensitive it could detect faint invisible ripples in space and time.
Global Politics
A physicist who proved Einstein right started by tinkering with the family record player
Spike Aerospace's supersonic jet would carry 18 passengers and travel at speeds around 1,100 mph.
Business
New York to London in 3 hours? More start-ups are looking at supersonic travel.
An engraving by William Miller of Newcastle in 1832
Environment
Newcastle University cuts its ties to coal
Admitted MIT students pose with the school's mascot during a weekend of activities at the university.
Education
How much should ‘elite’ matter when deciding where to go to college?
Spare parts team
Arts
How undocumented high-schoolers from Arizona beat MIT at the nation’s top robotics competition
Stephen (left) and Shadrack (center) Osero from Kenya discuss their project for using human waste as a source of green power at this year's Climate CoLab conference at MIT. The brothers were among the winners of this year's CoLab contest, which crowdsourc
Environment
An MIT project crowdsources local solutions in the fight against climate change
Video to audio process
Science
A new computer algorithm is helping scientists record audio using a potted plant
Bigger Than Technology
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Environment
Storm expert says climate change may have played a big role in Typhoon Haiyan after all
Bon Appétit's low-carbon food plan calls for putting vegetables at the center of the plate. Making the plate smaller cuts down on waste.
Environment
Cafeteria lunch: Industrial kitchens dish out climate-friendly cuisine