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Variety is the Spice of Science: Kickstarting New Scientific Collaborations

August 5, 2025

This article was originally published July 31, 2025 by the Kavli Foundation. Recognizing that the twenty Kavli Institutes worldwide reflected a massive range of expertise – and curiosity – the Kavli Institute Collaboration Kickstarter (KICK) grant program was opened in 2024. The grants sought to spark innovative research projects, and scholarly pursuits by bringing researchers

Universe’s Oldest Stars Found “Going The Wrong Way”

May 24, 2024

Three of the oldest stars in our universe have been discovered, and they were lurking right under our noses this whole time, and traveling in the wrong direction The heavenly bodies were detected by MIT researchers in the “halo” of stars that surrounds the distant edge of our Milky Way galaxy, and are thought to