Flatworms muscle new eyes' wiring into their brains
Peter Reddien's lab at the Whitehead Institute takes a step forward in understanding how neural circuits could be regenerated in adults.
Peter Reddien's lab at the Whitehead Institute takes a step forward in understanding how neural circuits could be regenerated in adults.
MIT engineers are using computing modeling to prevent microparticles from clogging during injections.
MIT engineers develop a hybrid process that connects photonics with “artificial atoms,” to produce the largest quantum chip of its type.
Extensive safety protocols will undergird the return of additional students and staff to campus.
“Light squeezer” reduces quantum noise in lasers, could enhance quantum computing and gravitational-wave detection.
Acoustic and biological constraints shape how we hear harmony across cultures.
Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.”
Neptune-sized planet may be remnant core of a much larger planet.
A global team of researchers searches for insights during a weeklong virtual “datathon.”
To spy on worms for days on end, Picower Institute scientists invent a new open-source microscopy platform.
Annual MITEI awards support research on battery storage, smart grids, and carbon emissions reduction.
The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in Covid-19 research.
In lab tests, virus-like DNA structures coated with viral proteins provoke a strong immune response in human B cells.
Method could shed light on nitric oxide’s role in the neural, circulatory, and immune systems.
Certain cancer therapeutics concentrate within cells — a finding that could change the way scientists think about drug design.