Retraining the brain for better vision
Professor Mark Bear's research on brain plasticity spins off a promising candidate to treat amblyopia, or lazy eye.
Professor Mark Bear's research on brain plasticity spins off a promising candidate to treat amblyopia, or lazy eye.
The MIT spinout Silverthread helps companies transform complex codebases into modular systems that can be changed or updated without headaches.
The MIT professor of economics studies social mobility and examines which policies can give people a chance to thrive.
The NASA mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own.
Five MIT faculty, along with seven additional affiliates, are honored for outstanding contributions to medical research.
The MIT’s Writers’ Group has helped community members channel their creative energies since 2002.
For his work on techniques to generate quantum dots of uniform size and color, Bawendi is honored along with Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov.
Grants fund studies of honeybee tracking, glass building materials, and defining excellence in human movement.
MIT spinout Kronos Bio, founded by Associate Professor Angela Koehler, studies the complex signaling networks of cancer cells to find new drug targets.
New professor of biology uses budding yeast to address fundamental questions in cell biology.
The program supports “outstanding theoretical scientists.”
MIT political scientist Taylor Fravel examines the potential and limitations of a bigger BRICS group of countries — and what it means for the U.S.
Co-directors Youssef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou describe how the standalone degree aims to train students in cross-cutting aspects of computational science and engineering.
Sixteen professors join the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics.
The pathbreaking thinker helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, in her lauded career.