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At eighteen, Rohan Naidu did the thing Indian families spend years hoping their children will never do. He dropped out of ...

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Stripe CEO Patrick Collison left MIT twice before building a $159 billion fintech firm—but says being a dropout isn’t key to ...

Explore the 10 best generative AI courses to take in 2026, with options for hands-on training, certifications, and practical AI skill building.

The MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) has received renewed support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an additional five years, increasing ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it falls, and when and where it will land. But if you were ...

Members of the BYU “Q-gars” pose with iQuHACK judges after winning the IonQ challenge. The team earned first place at MIT’s annual quantum hackathon. (Courtesy of Kai Sandberg) For the first time in ...

During the 2026 Winter Olympics, athletes will leap off ramps, slide across ice and spin through the air. These performances will look different to my students who have studied physics through sports.

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Max Tegmark, the MIT physics professor who has become an AI safety campaigner, emerged from days of meetings in a Vatican conference room in September with a stack of paper slips about the size of ...