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MIT Vs Caltech for STEM: Which University to choose?

October 06, 2025 9:39 am

Yet, dig deeper and you will find that these rivals—one on the West Coast and the other on the East—offer starkly different experiences and philosophies.

US man wins $2 million after buying two identical lottery tickets by mistake

July 21, 2025 8:25 pm

The only number he missed on both tickets was the red Powerball, number 5. Matching five white balls without the red Powerball wins a $1 million prize before taxes.

9 dead, 5 in hospital after fire tears through assisted living facility in US

July 14, 2025 6:17 pm

Roughly 70 residents were living at the facility at the time.

QS Rankings: IIT-Delhi jumps 27 ranks, tops India list, is 123 globally

June 20, 2025 10:00 am

Over the past decade, IITs Bombay and Delhi, and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, have stood in the top three positions among Indian institutions.

Interestingly, 87 per cent of MIT students from the Class of 2024 graduated debt-free.

MIT to offer free tuition to American families earning less than $200,000

November 27, 2024 9:41 am

MIT is one of only nine colleges in the US that does not consider applicants’ ability to pay as part of its admissions process and that meets the full demonstrated financial need ⁠for all undergraduates.

A rare but deadly mosquito virus infection has Massachusetts towns urging vigilance

August 24, 2024 11:50 pm

State and local health officials urged people in those towns to avoid the peak mosquito biting times by finishing outdoor activities by 6 p.m. until September 30 and then by 5 p.m. after that, until the first hard frost.

Massachusetts suffers brief statewide outage of 911 emergency system

June 19, 2024 2:21 am

The outage left residents briefly unable to call 911 for police, fire or ambulance assistance even as temperatures soared into the 90s Fahrenheit and as officials issued heat advisories or warnings.

7 shot when gunfire erupts at a pop-up party in Massachusetts

June 16, 2024 9:55 pm

The gunfire began just before 2 am after hundreds of people gathered for a pop-up party organized on social media, officials said at a news conference.

US: Teacher placed on leave over ‘mock slave auction’ in classroom

June 03, 2024 9:29 pm

During the lesson, the teacher “asked two children sitting in front of the room, who were of color, to stand,” Martineau said, and the class discussed physical attributes, including teeth and strength.

His surgery, which lasted four hours, was a medical milestone. For decades, proponents of so-called xenotransplantation have proposed replacing ailing human organs with those from animals.

Patient dies weeks after kidney transplant from genetically modified pig

May 14, 2024 1:34 pm

The pig kidney that was transplanted into Slayman was engineered by eGenesis, a biotech company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Scientists there removed three genes and added seven others to improve compatibility.