Developed by researchers at MIT, the method uses the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” within a molecule to help probe ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology publicly rejected an offer from the Trump administration Friday that would’ve granted the university preferential treatment for federal funding in exchange ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday rejected the Trump administration's offer of preferential access to federal funds in exchange for signing a pledge to take ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes ...

The new conditions for federal funding the Trump administration offered to MIT put the school in a no-win situation, people on the Cambridge campus and throughout academia said Friday: Agree to the ...

The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg plans to offer up to 10 postdoctoral positions for pursuing innovative theoretical or observational research within the Galaxies and ...

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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in ...