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Researchers with MIT and Harvard Medical School say a study in mice helped them identify the impacts of exercise and high-fat diets on cells, and that the information could lead to the eventual development of drugs that would enhance or mimic the benefits of working out.

TikTok’s Nick DiGiovanni and Lynja have officially set another world record, this time for the world’s largest chicken nugget.

Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow, who guided the Ivy League school through the coronavirus pandemic and put together a panel to examine the university’s deep ties to slavery, announced Wednesday that he plans to step down next year.

Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million to research and atone for its extensive ties with slavery, the school’s president announced Tuesday, with plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League campus. President Lawrence Bacow announced the funding as Harvard released a new report detailing many ways the college benefited from…

Their goal was to answer one question: Is it possible to split an Oreo down the middle and get the same amount of cream on both sides of the wafer?

Arm, the crown jewel in the U.K. tech industry, is set to shun its home stock market.

“Alias” actor Jennifer Garner is being celebrated for her star power both on- and off-screen.

Police in Boston and Cambridge responded to the Charles River on Wednesday morning for reports of a dog on the ice near Boston University that might be in need of rescue. But when Boston firefighters and Massachusetts State Police got there, they found a coyote instead of someone’s pet. They said the coyote appeared healthy and was not in...

The U.K. government has announced that it wants a full-blown investigation into Nvidia’s takeover of Cambridge chip designer Arm.

The Federal Election Commission has called off its probe into Cambridge Analytica after it was outmaneuvered by lawyers and struggled to gather evidence.

For the ranking, U.S. News analyzed the data of 1,750 schools from 90 countries across 13 different variables.

Electric vehicles have surged in demand, and hit a record number last year as more and more people turn to battery-operated cars.

New data from Cambridge University shows that the geography of mining has drastically changed over the last six months.

Arm has co-founded a new start-up accelerator in Cambridge, England, to try to help young “deep tech” firms grow into the next generation of tech giants.

A biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is working on a patch that would be used to administer a combination vaccine for both COVID and the seasonal flu.

A professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the Chinese government to the U.S. Department of Energy. Gang Chen, 56, of Cambridge, was arrested Thursday morning on charges that he abused his position as a professor at MIT to commit wire fraud, failed to file a…

Massachusetts biotech firm Moderna Inc. will produce 100 million doses of its in-development vaccine for the new coronavirus for the U.S. government, the Cambridge-based company and President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.

More than a dozen workers at a Massachusetts Whole Foods Market say they were sent home for showing support for Black Lives Matter. Seven workers at the store on River Street in Cambridge were sent home Wednesday for wearing “Black Lives Matter” face masks, and 14 were sent home Thursday. “When I first got into the job and applied, they…

A Massachusetts woman whose baby was delivered by cesarean section met the newborn after the woman’s coronavirus kept them apart for six weeks.