Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was found dead, authorities said. The suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University that left two students dead and nine others wounded was found dead ...

Authorities said on Dec. 16 that they launched a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

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America's elite institutions are grappling with a growing math crisis, as incoming students show alarming gaps in foundational skills. This issue, highlighted by MIT and Harvard's introduction of ...

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A set of algebra questions from the 1869 MIT entrance exam has recently taken the internet by storm, igniting discussions about the institution's academic rigor and the evolution of mathematics ...