Stars, brains, and enzymes: a celebration of MIT science
First virtual MIT Better World gathering featured MIT researchers sharing some of the ways the Institute excels as a hub of science and innovation.
First virtual MIT Better World gathering featured MIT researchers sharing some of the ways the Institute excels as a hub of science and innovation.
EECS faculty head of artificial intelligence and decision making honored for significant and extended contributions to the field of AI.
The brain uses different frequency rhythms and cortical layers to suppress expected stimulation and increase activity for what’s novel.
Findings suggest this hippocampal circuit helps us to maintain our timeline of memories.
Frontal brain region overrides reflexive inclination of a deeper, older region when rules require.
Miniaturized device activates drugs in a small region deep within the brain.
Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
A new algorithm capable of inferring goals and plans could help machines better adapt to the imperfect nature of human planning.
Unbiased, high-throughput analysis pipeline improves utility of “minibrains” for understanding development and diseases such as Zika infection.
Opioid receptor MOR1 changes discovered in neurodegenerative disease model.
Katie Collins and Marla Odell are heading to the United Kingdom next fall for two years of graduate study.
Speakers describe studies to address Alzheimer’s disease, sleep apnea, and to advance fundamental discoveries in cell and chromosome biology.
Adding a module that mimics part of the brain can prevent common errors made by computer vision models.
What's SSUP? The Sample, Simulate, Update cognitive model developed by MIT researchers learns to use tools like humans do.
Fluorescent imaging technique simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell.