Three AI stories landed in five days this month, and reading them back-to-back left me with a low hum of dread I have not felt reading a tech story in years. Picking one story to obsess over while ...

A reported attempt to synthesize dimethylmercury triggered an emergency response at MIT because even tiny amounts can penetrate skin and common gloves, causing delayed and potentially irreversible ...

Canada has awarded 64 global scholars with C$504 million ($362 million) in funding to relocate their work to Canadian universities and advance projects in areas such as health and artificial ...

University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead has appointed a search committee to conduct a national search for candidates to serve as the institution’s next senior vice president for academic ...

The committee leading the search and screening process for a new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison will hold virtual listening sessions on June 15 and 22 to gather input from the ...

Whether you want fewer AI-generated answers, better privacy protections, or a different approach to discovery, these search engines are compelling alternatives to Google. I've been testing PC and ...

Three beds, arranged in a gleaming, sculptural, Y-shaped aluminum apparatus: They invite you not just to lie down but to surrender to suggestion, hovering at the edge of consciousness. You climb in, ...

Students walk past the "Great Dome" atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. (Charles Krupa/AP) MIT has cut ties with a national nonprofit focused on ...

The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called music “the universal language of mankind.” Is that still true when the so-called music is being generated by a probabilistic robot instead of a ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project — called ...

Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind two shootings in New England after the suspect was found dead. The man who killed two students at Brown University was located in a New ...

Update: Law enforcement officials say the suspect in the Brown University shooting also shot and killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro. The suspect was found dead Thursday night. Read the latest here.