Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, a prominent donor who has contributed over $500 million to Harvard University, has decided to suspend further financial support for his alma mater, expressing dissatisfaction with the current state of American universities. Griffin, among the wealthiest individuals globally, voiced his frustration during a conference in Miami, citing concerns about the direction... 

Hahaha such a funny story here folks! It looks like all of you who spent a fortune buying “rare” diamonds, got scammed big time. They aren’t so rare after all and their value will drop immediately once those new diamonds get tapped into. Diamond isn’t just the hardest substance known to man, it also may be a bit more common than we originally thought. Scientists believe they... 

A new study raises hopes for patients with severe amnesia. Memories lost as a result of amnesia can be retrieved by activating certain brain cells with light, a new study says. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to recover lost memories of a group of laboratory mice, hit by amnesia, through using a technology known as optogenetics, or the use of light to prompt... 

Aaron Swartz, a US internet activist, who was critical of US President Barack Obama’s policies and was recently found dead in his apartment. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched an inquiry into the recent death of a US internet activist, who was critical of US President Barack Obama’s so-called kill list. On Sunday, Leo Rafael Reif, the president of the MIT, called on Engineering... 

MIT physicists grew this pure crystal of herbertsmithite in their laboratory. This sample, which took 10 months to grow, is 7 mm long (just over a quarter-inch) and weighs 0.2 grams. Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that they have been able to demonstrate the existence of a new state of magnetism. MIT physics professor Young Lee, the senior author of the study, said... 

The handout illustration provided by NASA shows Phoenix, the newly-found galaxy. Astronomers have recently discovered a distant gigantic galaxy cluster that is capable of giving birth to new stars at an extraordinary rate. Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the US National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope and eight other observatories, showed that the newly-discovered... 

Some people never forget a face. For the rest of us, recognizing faces is not so easy. And those with prosopagnosia can’t even recognize their close friends. Now scientists say the ability to recognize faces is inherited and separate from general intelligence or IQ. IQ is strongly heritable. And one longstanding general thought about IQ holds that if you’re smart in one area, you’ll...