How the brain tells good from bad
Neuroscientists identify neurons in the amygdala that assign emotions to experience.
Picower researchers ID brain mechanisms underlying alertness and attentiveness
First demonstration that a common neurotransmitter acts via a single neuron type to enable effective information-processing.
Professor Emeritus Benjamin Lax dies at 99
Pioneer in semiconductors created MIT's magnet laboratory and served as associate director of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Boiling down viscous flow
A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids.
Alana Foundation gift to support study of Down syndrome
MIT’s Picower Institute to partner on four projects with Case Western Reserve University.
Discovery science is reinventing the world
How discovery science is reinventing the worldMIT innovators take a close look at how basic science research leads to applications, new companies, jobs, and economic growth.
New tabletop detector “sees” single electrons
Magnet-based setup may help detect the elusive mass of neutrinos.
Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
In middle-schoolers, neuroscientists find differences in brain structures where knowledge is stored.
MIT sensor detects spoiled meat
Tiny device could be incorporated into “smart packaging” to improve food safety.
Jochem Marotzke to speak on what the warming “hiatus” means for climate change
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology will deliver the 15th annual Henry W. Kendall Lecture.
Fostering U.S.-Russia energy innovation
Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage brings together researchers from MIT and two Russian institutes to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells.