After the off-campus murder of a professor last semester, some MIT students returned to classes with thoughts on whether the school can protect them.

Engineers at MIT have turned one of computing’s biggest headaches, waste heat, into the main act. By sculpting “dust-sized” silicon structures that steer heat as precisely as electrical current, they ...

Scientists in the US have created a tiny silicon chip that can perform mathematical ...

For many individuals, growing uncomfortable with mathematics often starts in early childhood when they receive a worksheet with numbers on it. At this point in life, there may be feelings of panic, ...

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This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Authorities were working Wednesday to uncover clues after a prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

Homicide detectives are investigating after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab director and professor was found shot to death in his Brookline home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was taken to ...

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Thinking achieved perfect scores in AIME and HMMT, marking China’s first flawless AI math performance. OpenAI’s GPT-5 Pro also self-reported perfect results, setting up a new ...

Don Barry, of Northfield, was inducted into the Minnesota Math League Hall of Fame on Friday, July 18. Barry was recognized for writing problems for the league for a good ten years as well as for ...