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TikTokers Nick DiGiovanni and Lynja Set World Record for Largest Chicken Nugget
TikTok’s Nick DiGiovanni and Lynja have officially set another world record, this time for the world’s largest chicken nugget.
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Harvard President to Step Down in 2023
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.
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Harvard Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Role in Slavery
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…
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Twist It Or Dunk It? Either Way, MIT ‘Oreologists' Seek Optimal Oreo Separation
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?
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London Set to Miss Out on Another Hot Tech Listing as SoftBank Eyes U.S. for Arm IPO
Arm, the crown jewel in the U.K. tech industry, is set to shun its home stock market.
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Jennifer Garner Celebrated as Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year
“Alias” actor Jennifer Garner is being celebrated for her star power both on- and off-screen.
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Police Got a Call for a Dog on the Ice. Turns Out It Was Actually a Coyote
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...
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Nvidia's $40 Billion Takeover of Chip Designer Arm Faces a UK National Security Probe
The U.K. government has announced that it wants a full-blown investigation into Nvidia’s takeover of Cambridge chip designer Arm.
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Money, Denials and Stalling: How Trump, the Mercers and the GOP Beat the FEC
The Federal Election Commission has called off its probe into Cambridge Analytica after it was outmaneuvered by lawyers and struggled to gather evidence.
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The 10 Best Global Universities of 2022, According to U.S. News and World Report
For the ranking, U.S. News analyzed the data of 1,750 schools from 90 countries across 13 different variables.
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Are Electric Cars ‘Green'? The Answer Is Yes, But It's Complicated
Electric vehicles have surged in demand, and hit a record number last year as more and more people turn to battery-operated cars.
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Bitcoin Mining Isn't Nearly as Bad for the Environment as It Used to Be, New Data Shows
New data from Cambridge University shows that the geography of mining has drastically changed over the last six months.
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Gloria Richardson, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 99
Civil rights pioneer Gloria Richardson has died
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Chipmaker Arm Has Co-Founded a ‘Deep Tech' Accelerator in Cambridge
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.
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COVID Vaccine Patch? Mass. Company Got NIH Grant to Work on It
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.
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MIT Professor Charged With Hiding Work for China
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…
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US Gov't to Buy 100M Doses of Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine for $1.5B
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.
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Mass. Whole Foods Workers Told They Can't Wear BLM Face Masks
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…
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Watch: Mom Meets Newborn After Recovering From COVID-19
A Massachusetts woman whose baby was delivered by cesarean section met the newborn after the woman’s coronavirus kept them apart for six weeks.
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California Discloses Probe on Facebook Privacy Practices
California’s attorney general says he has been investigating Facebook’s privacy practices since 2018.