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Protecting whales in Massachusetts

CJ Gunther, EPA-EFE
Posted at Jun 23 10:48 AM

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is set to release new rules for the shipping industry to protect the North Atlantic right whale. Read more »

Filipino prof's disinformation study gets $200K grant

RHIA GRANA
Updated as of May 03 12:02 PM

University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Jonathan Corpus Ong is about to embark on probing the human cost of disinformation Read more »

Comelec taps US startup to test online voting for 2025

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 08 04:26 PM

Voatz, a Boston-based tech firm flagged by MIT researchers in 2020, will host Comelec's pilot simulation of online voting among overseas Filipinos. Read more »

Filipino MIT graduate who got perfect GPA asserts math can reduce pandemic impacts

Paul Garilao | TFC News USA
Posted at Aug 13 02:37 PM

A Filipino recently made headlines after graduating with a perfect GPA from MIT. He gives back to the community by sharing his love for math, which he believes, can solve real-life problems. Read more »

Like Jonah: Fisherman says he was swallowed by humpback

Catherine Triomphe, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 12 10:28 AM

A US lobster fisherman says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale Friday and yet lived to tell the story.  Read more »

WATCH: Yo-Yo Ma marks second COVID jab with surprise concert in clinic

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 15 09:30 AM

WASHINGTON - Receiving a second Covid vaccine dose is often a cause for celebration and, in one US clinic, legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma marked the occasion with a surprise recital. Read more »

Coronavirus gene findings are no cause for alarm, says leading scientist

Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 30 01:30 PM

A leading biologist whose team recently discovered that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 may be able to insert its genes into human DNA has said there is no cause for alarm over vaccines that mimic the process of infection.   Read more »

Pandemic changes may point way to sustainable cities of the future

Sonia Elks, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Jan 26 03:40 AM

LONDON - City dwellers and planners should build on the dramatic changes swept in by COVID-19 to create a more sustainable and low-carbon future, urban experts told a virtual meeting of global leaders on Monday. Read more »

Pandemic, election brew an extra-spooky Halloween

Laura Bonilla, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 29 11:28 AM

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, United States - Croton-on-Hudson is a quaint village an hour north of New York City that has thrived thanks to a spooky tale written some 200 years ago. The town is still holding its annual Halloween bash this year -- with the US election and the coronavirus pandemic lending an extra dose of chills. Read more »

Life on Venus? Astronomers see a signal in Its clouds

Shannon Stirone, Kenneth Chang and Dennis Overbye, New York Times
Updated as of Sep 15 11:29 AM

High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life. Read more »

What scares Salem? October without Halloween

Aimee Ortiz, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 14 10:18 AM

With coronavirus cases spiking around the country, cities, towns, retailers and confectioners are bracing themselves for what could be a substantially more subdued Halloween this year.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 07, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 08 12:44 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Food assistance in Chelsea amid COVID-19 pandemic

Brian Snyder, Reuters
Posted at Jul 07 10:59 AM

A resident picks up food distributed at a food pantry run by Revival International Center (Centro Internacional de Avivamiento) Chelsea, amid ongoing economic hardship for some people due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S. on Monday. Read more »

Early graduation could send US medical students to virus front lines

Emma Goldberg, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 27 11:46 AM

The battle to treat an ever-growing number of patients infected with the new coronavirus just gained its newest recruits: soon-to-be medical graduates. Several medical schools in Massachusetts and New York announced this week that they intended to offer early graduation to their fourth-year students, fast-tracking them into front-line hospital care as the need for medical workers surges.   Read more »

Warmer weather may slow, but not halt coronavirus: MIT

Knvul Sheikh and Ernesto Londoño, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 23 10:13 AM

Communities living in warmer places appear to have a comparative advantage to slow the transmission of coronavirus infections, according to an early analysis by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more »

Boston Marathon bomber seeks to avoid death penalty

Tim McLaughlin, Reuters
Posted at Dec 12 08:55 PM

Tsarnaev, now 26, was sentenced to death in 2015 after a jury found him guilty of killing three people in the April 15, 2013 bombing - Martin Richard, 8; Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 26, and restaurant manager Krystle Campbell - and murdering Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, three days later as the brothers attempted to flee. Read more »