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“The American Buffalo,” Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary, took four years to produce, but the idea behind it can be traced back more than 30 years.

The new documentary tells the story of bison and the people and lands impacted by the iconic mammals.

A few years ago, a group of scientists at the University of Arizona put forward the idea of building a seed bank on the moon. Only a facility sited off-world, the scientists said, could provide a true hedge against the extinction of life on...

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Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won fellowships from the U.S. State Department's Fulbright U.S. Student Program to pursue grants overseas in 2023-24. For four years in a row, MIT has been named a Fulbright Top-Producing Institution.

The AI model can identify individuals with the highest risk of pancreatic cancer up to three years prior to their formal diagnosis. A new study, led by researchers from Harvard Medical School, the University of Copenhagen, VA Boston Healthcare System, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Harvard T

Three from MIT have been named 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholars. Bhav Jain, Pam Stark, and Sreya Vangara will commence funded studies at Stanford University this fall.

An AI tool identified people at the highest risk for pancreatic cancer up to three years before actual diagnosis. The findings point to the promise of AI for mass screening to help expedite the diagnosis of an aggressive disease often identified with serious delays. Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world and its toll is projected to increase.

At the end of June, after a two-decade tenure at the MIT Center for International Studies, Richard Samuels plans to step down. He will remain an active faculty member in the Department of Political Science and its Security Studies Program. Evan Lieberman, the current director of MISTI, will take on the leadership of CIS.