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Fox News Channel finished August as the most-watched network in all of cable during another news-heavy month that featured the Democratic National Convention.

Kamala Harris and Democrats now ‘tough as nails’ on border security?

Saturn’s moon Titan is the only body in the solar system besides Earth that has active lakes and seas—in this case thought to have formed as liquid methane and ethane flooded a landscape crisscrossed with river valleys. Now MIT geologists have found evidence that those mysterious features may be shaped by waves. Until now, scientists…

Social media platforms are often urged to fight the spread of misinformation through content moderation, but two MIT-affiliated researchers are proposing an alternative: empowering users themselves to identify which information sources are trustworthy. The Trustnet browser extension, built by EECS professor David Karger and Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, SM ’21, PhD ’23, an assistant professor at the…

Boosting the performance of solar cells and other devices will require novel electronic materials that researchers are working to identify with the help of AI. Now a computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers offers a speedy way to confirm that such materials perform as expected—one of the biggest bottlenecks in the screening process.  The…

A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales, like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A single scale is as small as a speck of dust yet surprisingly complex, with a corrugated surface that helps wick away water, manage heat, and reflect light to give a butterfly its signature shimmer. MIT…

Take a beautiful spring weekend, add brass rats and Tim the Beaver swag, mix in technology talks and outdoor activities, fuse it all together with a lot of socializing, and what do you get? MIT Tech Reunions, which this year drew more than 3,300 alumni, family, and friends to campus. The long weekend, May 30–June…

In 1976, Tom Scholz ’69, SM ’70, was a 29-year-old product design engineer working at Polaroid on audio electronics and tape-recording technology, with 11 patents under his belt. But few colleagues knew what Scholz did after hours, why he often came in late, or why he was, in his own words, “a horrible employee.”  For…

MIT people often find their greatest moments of inspiration in each other’s company. And two big, beautiful additions to West Campus now underway will open up new spaces for connection, collaboration, rigorous exploration, and joyful play.  Stretching along Mass. Ave. and Vassar Street, the familiar brick face of the historic Metropolitan Storage Warehouse may evoke…

One Tuesday morning this past January, So Young Lee walked into a lab on the fourth floor of Building 18 and discovered that her equipment had exploded. It was a minor explosion—thankfully, no one was hurt—but the chemical she had painstakingly made had splattered all over the walls, the ceiling, and the broken shards of…

Attending lectures and movies in 26-100 has been an integral part of the MIT experience for generations of students, but since 2018 they have also embraced what’s become another quintessential Institute experience just across the hall: picking up a banana in 26-110, officially the Karl Taylor Compton Room but now better known as the MIT…

Any facet of Josef Eisinger’s remarkably wide-ranging century of life would be enough to shape the entire identity of another person. If you were to ask how his experience has intersected with history, for example, he might tell you about escaping the Nazis’ reign of terror in his native Austria by fleeing to Britain by…

Surely a hair tie would be of use while you’re sampling fruit at a farmer’s market? Or does this chef just get long blonde strands in everything and nobody minds because she’s so beautiful?

FN looks back at the height of the popularity of platform shoes and their enduring legacy in today’s style landscape.

The activation will be open to visitors through September 8 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Director Wes Ball, editor Dan Zimmerman, and production VFX supervisor Erik Winquist comment on a split-screen comparison between the unfinished and finished movie in Blu-ray extra.

Via Metal Miner Falling exchange prices and rising LME inventories this year indicate that primary aluminum is currently in ample supply. So far, aluminum prices have slightly increased since the beginning of the month as inventory levels have steadily declined. However, while the metal leaving the exchange has been Indian, a good, deliverable brand, the metal arriving has been Russian, which faces sanctions in much of the West. Nevertheless, as my colleague Nichole Bastin reported just last week... Читать дальше...

Your business can only grow to the extent that your abilities as a team player grow, and my experience has shown that cultivating the following five attributes can make you a team player who is well-positioned to see your business grow.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The 2024 Paris Paralympic Games are just one day away, and while thousands of athletes are set to take the stage in Paris, NBC4 is highlighting adaptive sports and their impact here locally. Though not everyone can compete in the Paralympics, one Ohio team has been competing at the top of [...]

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As she heads into an incredible seventh Paralympic Games, wheelchair racing champion Angie Ballard reflects on her journey to get here and her feelings about leading the Australian team into Paris.

Sky Sports reporter Michael Bridge has provided a late transfer update, suggesting that Tottenham could potentially make one last signing in the final days of... The post ‘Maybe one more’ – Sky Sports journalist reveals possibility of late Spurs signing appeared first on The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News.

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