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

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse. By Vimal Patel ...

Despite an abundance of data suggesting interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — the third object ever detected ripping through our solar system — is simply a comet, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb still hasn’t ...

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 ...

DES MOINES — More universities have denied claims from Des Moines Public Schools' former superintendent about his education and accomplishments, raising questions about how thoroughly Iowa's largest ...

Groups of people, sometimes hundreds at a time, are showing up in city parks with a container of pudding in one hand and a fork in the other. Then, together, they start eating. People of all ages are ...

For a second-straight year, a small college in Massachusetts has beaten out some very big names in higher education on the Wall Street Journal's ranking of the best universities in America. The ...

“The MIT Registrar’s Office has no record of enrollment for a person with the name Ian Andre Roberts,” an MIT Sloan School of Management spokesperson said. "The university has no record of awarding ...

For a second year in a row, Babson College, a private institution in Wellesley, beat out the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to earn second place in The Wall Street ...

People are increasingly falling in love with A.I. chatbots—and not on purpose. Ghariza Mahavira for Unsplash+ The report analyzed posts between December 2024 and August 2025 from the more than 27,000 ...