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An alien signal hit Earth in 2022. Astronomers have now found its original source

Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made significant progress in understanding the origins of fast radio bursts, mysterious cosmic phenomena that emit intense bursts of radio wave signals for mere milliseconds. In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, the MIT team focused on FRB 20221022A, detected from a galaxy approximately 200 million light-years away. The findings suggest that …

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1 week, 4 days ago

The world needs a pro-human AI agenda

Live Mint

These are uncertain and confusing times. Accordingly, there is much debate about whether these amazing capabilities will make us prosperous beyond our wildest dreams, or instead bring about the end of human civilization, with superintelligent AI models becoming our masters. But if hype prevails and companies adopt AI for jobs that cannot be done as well by machines, we may …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Manipal Institute of Technology Alumni Association launched

The Hindu

Manipal Institute of Technology under Manipal Academy of Higher Education launched MIT Manipal Alumni Association on Tuesday, at Manipal to bring together generations of graduates from the institute. Mr. Eswaran said, “As an alumnus of this prestigious university, I am incredibly thrilled to be present for the MIT Manipal Alumni Association’s founding. Numerous success stories, including mine, have been built …

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Indian-origin MIT student suspended over pro-Palestinian activism

Deccan Chronicle

New York: An Indian-origin student pursuing PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been suspended until January 2026 following his pro-Palestinian activism and is currently appealing the university's decision. In a call to action, the organisation is demanding that the MIT administration reverse Iyengar's suspension before Wednesday and said over 100 people have asked the city of Cambridge's councillors …

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MIT suspends Indian-origin student Prahlad Iyengar over an essay: What is the controversy?

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has suspended Prahlad Iyengar, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science after he published a pro-Palestine essay in a student magazine. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/ufr8z8BCRT — Amit Schandillia December 9, 2024 In a statement shared by his lawyer Eric Lee on X, Iyengar said, “The administration accuses me of supporting ’terrorism’, because …

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MIT Suspends Indian-Origin PhD Scholar Over Pro-Palestine Essay, Sparks Debate On Free Speech

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An Indian-origin PhD scholar has been barred from entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after he wrote a pro-Palestine essay for the college magazine last month. Prahlad Iyengar was pursuing a PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Iyengar has been suspended till January 2026 which would terminate his five-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. According …

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Indian-origin PhD student at MIT suspended over pro-Palestinian activism, appeals university's decision

New Indian Express

NEW YORK: An Indian-origin student pursuing PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been suspended until January 2026 following his pro-Palestinian activism and is currently appealing the university's decision. In a call to action, the organisation is demanding that the MIT administration reverse Prahlad's suspension before Wednesday and said over 100 people have asked the city of Cambridge's councillors …

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1 month ago

Indian-origin PhD student at MIT suspended over pro-Palestinian activism, appeals university's decision

India TV News

New York: An Indian-origin student pursuing PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been suspended until January 2026 following his pro-Palestinian activism and is currently appealing the university's decision. Prahlad Iyengar, also a National Science Foundation fellow, has been “suspended until January 2026,” according to a post on X by a group called ‘MIT Coalition Against Apartheid’. “This decision …

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MIT Student Prahlad Iyengar: From Janeu-dhari boy to radical pro-Palestinian activist

Op India

In November 2024, Indian-origin Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD student Prahlad Iyengar was barred from entering the campus after he authored a pro-Palestine essay in the student magazine Written Revolution. According to an email sent by MIT Dean of Student Life David Warren Randall to the editors of the magazine, the imagery and language used by Prahlad in the essay …

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MIT suspends Indian-origin student for pro-Palestine essay, bans magazine

India Today

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has barred an Indian-origin PhD scholar from entering his college campus over a pro-Palestine essay he wrote in the college magazine last month. The essay Iyengar wrote was published in Written Revolution, a multidisciplinary student magazine about the pro-Palestine movement, and the MIT found it calling for violence. "After public backlash against Prahlad's campus ban …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Top Australian university joins MIT in providing tuition-free scholarships globally

India Today

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia is offering Foundation Academic Scholarships to support international students with their tuition fees. Recently, universities around the world have announced various tuition fee benefits for international students, with the University of Texas and MIT in the United States among the institutions offering such support. These universities are providing financial assistance to help alleviate …

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1 month, 1 week ago

The hunt for heat: Drilling the deepest holes on Earth

BBC

The hunt for heat: Drilling the deepest holes on Earth Quaise Energy Beneath our feet is an almost limitless source of energy, but while a few lucky locations have geothermal heat close to the surface, the rest of the world will need to dig a lot deeper. These depths will allow nearly universal access to geothermal power – Igor Kocis …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Hot battery brick could decarbonise heavy industry

The Independent

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

After MIT, Texas University system to provide tuition-free education for low-income students

India Today

The University of Texas system is set to provide free tuition to undergraduate students whose families have an adjusted gross income of $100,000 or less. This initiative, aimed at reducing financial strain on lower-income households, will cover students enrolled in any of the system's nine academic institutions. According to an official statement, the programme will start next fall and will …

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MIT to offer free education to students with family income below $200,000

Hindustan Times

Pursuing higher education from the best universities is a dream for many. Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently announced that undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall. According to MIT News, eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold and for the 50 percent of American families with income below $100,000, parents …

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MIT announces tuition-free education for families earning under $200,000

India Today

Starting in 2025, undergraduate students from families earning under $200,000 annually can expect to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US without paying tuition, thanks to a significant expansion in financial aid. Families earning less than $100,000 annually will see an even greater benefit, as parents won’t pay anything toward the full cost of attendance — including tuition, …

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India dominates Times Higher Education rankings 2025 with 65 universities listed

India Today

India has made a historic leap in the Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2025 compiled by Times Higher Education, with institutions like the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi achieving top positions among global contenders. THE RANKINGS 2025: TOP 10 INDIAN UNIVERSITIES Anna University VIT University SRM Institute of Science and Technology …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

University of Texas, MIT and others announce free tuition for some undergraduates

NPR

University of Texas, MIT and others announce free tuition for some undergraduates toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Nearly half a dozen institutions of higher education separately announced plans this week to make tuition free for undergraduates who meet certain income requirements, reflecting a growing nationwide effort to make college more affordable. Nearly 2,000 miles away, the University of Texas System announced …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

IIT Delhi leads India in employability rankings, notes global survey: Check top 10

India Today

When it comes to landing a job, where you study often matters, the Global Employability University Rankings 2025, compiled by French consultancy Emerging and published with Times Higher Education, has released the list of the top institutes worldwide with the highest employability. The survey ranked 10 Indian universities for their employability, with IIT Delhi at the top. Other notable mentions …

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4 months, 1 week ago

From Abu Dhabi to Zanzibar: How IIT is India’s new big export

Firstpost

IIT-Delhi now has a campus in Abu Dhabi. On Monday, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, attended the inauguration of the first international campus of India’s prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in the UAE capital. New IIT in Abu Dhabi On Monday, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi inaugurated the Abu Dhabi …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Caltech’s latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are women

LA Times

High school girls from around the nation wait in line to ask questions of scientist Katie Bouman during the annual Women in STEM program at Caltech in Pasadena. Bouman’s lecture, part of the Caltech Women in STEM program, had a deeper motive: It showcased a leading woman scientist to help girls envision themselves attending one of the world’s preeminent institutions …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Bill Gates believed Jeffrey Epstein could deliver the Nobel Prize he craved. Instead, their toxic dalliance destroyed Gates' marriage and stained his 'saintly' reputation for ever... as revealed in a

Daily Mail

One was a charming and urbane New York financier around whom beautiful young women hovered like bees to honey. An unflattering new biography of Gates, right, offers fresh insight into his troubling four-year friendship with the late, disgraced millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, left Das, the former finance editor of the New York Times – so hardly a hack operator …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ukrainian refugee to study at prestigious US university after top A-level grades

The Independent

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6 months ago

China outspends the US on fusion in the race for energy’s holy grail

Live Mint

A high-tech race is under way between the U.S. and China as both countries chase an elusive energy source: fusion. JP Allain, who heads the Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, said China is spending around $1.5 billion a year on fusion, nearly twice the U.S. government’s fusion budget. What’s more, China appears to be following a program …

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An alien signal hit Earth in 2022. Astronomers have now found its original source

The world needs a pro-human AI agenda

Manipal Institute of Technology Alumni Association launched

Indian-origin MIT student suspended over pro-Palestinian activism

MIT suspends Indian-origin student Prahlad Iyengar over an essay: What is the controversy?

MIT Suspends Indian-Origin PhD Scholar Over Pro-Palestine Essay, Sparks Debate On Free Speech

Indian-origin PhD student at MIT suspended over pro-Palestinian activism, appeals university's decision

Indian-origin PhD student at MIT suspended over pro-Palestinian activism, appeals university's decision

MIT Student Prahlad Iyengar: From Janeu-dhari boy to radical pro-Palestinian activist

MIT suspends Indian-origin student for pro-Palestine essay, bans magazine

Top Australian university joins MIT in providing tuition-free scholarships globally

The hunt for heat: Drilling the deepest holes on Earth

Hot battery brick could decarbonise heavy industry

After MIT, Texas University system to provide tuition-free education for low-income students

MIT to offer free education to students with family income below $200,000

MIT announces tuition-free education for families earning under $200,000

India dominates Times Higher Education rankings 2025 with 65 universities listed

University of Texas, MIT and others announce free tuition for some undergraduates

IIT Delhi leads India in employability rankings, notes global survey: Check top 10

From Abu Dhabi to Zanzibar: How IIT is India’s new big export

Caltech’s latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are women

Bill Gates believed Jeffrey Epstein could deliver the Nobel Prize he craved. Instead, their toxic dalliance destroyed Gates' marriage and stained his 'saintly' reputation for ever... as revealed in a

Ukrainian refugee to study at prestigious US university after top A-level grades

China outspends the US on fusion in the race for energy’s holy grail