Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have leaned on a century-old law to avoid paying out large sums in lawsuits despite having billion-dollar endowments, legal ...

A big increase in the tax on university endowments is adding to financial uncertainty for the wealthiest colleges in the U.S., leading several already to lay off staff or implement hiring ...

The first rule of Prod is: you do not talk about Prod. The student‑run nonprofit — whispered about by Harvard and MIT undergrads, and likened to a “secret society” by some investors — has quietly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT and Harvard scientists have built the world’s most precise optical clock, surpassing the quantum limit with entangled atoms ...

Students of top colleges like Harvard and MIT are dropping out of their studies midway due to fear of AI. They believe that super-intelligent machines will make the jobs and careers of humans useless ...

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are leading the formation of a project to accelerate gene and cell therapy, with participation from several Harvard-affiliated teaching ...

Every second of modern life runs on precision — from GPS navigation to the time signals that keep the internet in sync. But scientists at MIT and Harvard have just taken precision to an entirely new ...