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Tsinghua University established the Mechano-X Institute (THUM) on April 26. This marks a significant initiative to serve the country's major strategic needs and to promote in-depth interdisciplinary integration.Li Luming, Tsinghua president and acade

Something caught my eye the other day – a report on Avi Wigderson from the Institute of Advanced Study winning the year’s Turing award for his work on randomness.

Exploring the kinship, social customs, and transformations of early medieval steppe communities in Europe through ancient DNA and archaeological evidence. The Avars, originating from Eastern Central Asia, dominated large parts of Eastern Central Europe for over two and a half centuries, from the 6t

Costa Rica, once a model of democracy and social progress in Latin America, now faces rising violence, inequality, and social challenges that threaten its stability and future.

Social pressures to be productive – not to mention a culture that prizes multi-tasking – make doing nothing hard to do, for fear of being accused of the dreaded sin of laziness. However, experts say there are rewards for not pushing yourself to the edge all the time.

The title of Celeste Headlee’s recent book says it all: “Do Nothing.” But she argues social pressures make doing nothing hard to do.

The Northeast corridor is America’s busiest rail line. Each day, its trains deliver 800,000 passengers to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and points in between. The Northeast corridor is also a name for the place those trains serve: the coastal plain stretching from Virginia to Massachusetts, where over 17% of the country’s population lives on […] The post How trains linking rival U.S. East Coast port cities created a cultural and economic megalopolis appeared fir...

Intending to map the ground from small aircraft and drones, researchers in China have made a singe-photon radar. It achieves resolution better than 40cm

MIT professors Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright won 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships in neuroscience, physics, and data science. Guggenheim Fellows are awarded monetary stipend to pursue independent work and research.

The Northeast corridor is America’s busiest rail line. Each day, its trains deliver 800,000 passengers to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and points in between. The Northeast corridor is also a name for the place those trains serve: the coastal plain stretching from Virginia to Massachusetts, where over 17 percent of the country’s population lives […] The post How trains linked rival port cities along the East Coast into a cultural and economic megalopolis appear...