3Q: Janet Conrad on the first detection of a neutrino’s cosmic source
The “ghostly particle” is confirmed to have originated from a blazar, nearly 4 billion light years from Earth.
Scientists sharpen the edges of cancer chemotherapy
Whitehead team deploys CRISPR tools to better understand and uncover ways of improving methotrexate, a popular chemotherapy drug.
Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?
Signals from rare black hole-neutron star pairs could pinpoint rate at which universe is growing, researchers say.
Collaboration to expand the study of microbial oceanography
Simons Foundation-backed CBIOMES brings together researchers in oceanography, statistics, data science, ecology, biogeochemistry, and remote sensing.
What separates the strong from weak among connections in the brain
MIT study finds synapses develop strength with calcium, maturation.
Yufei Zhao wins Future of Science Award
Assistant professor honored for contributions to research in discrete mathematics, teaching, service, and outreach.
Project to elucidate the structure of atomic nuclei at the femtoscale
Laboratory for Nuclear Science project selected to explore machine learning for lattice quantum chromodynamics.
Institute Archives spotlights pioneering women at MIT
Initiative is building collections highlighting the contributions of female faculty.
Attention new moms: A way to make more milk with less pain
Alumna-founded LiLu promises to make life as a new mom easier by making breast pumping more comfortable and more productive.
Study shows where brain transforms seeing into doing
MIT neuroscientists find posterior parietal cortex region is crucial to connecting perception to action.
Taming fusion with machine learning
Postdoc Cristina Rea's detour into banking provides a new route back to plasma research.
Restricting a key cellular nutrient could slow tumor growth
Researchers identify the amino acid aspartate as a metabolic limitation in certain cancers.
Advancing knowledge in medical and genetic sciences
Three MIT faculty members selected for funding from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.
3Q: Nancy Hopkins on the impact and potential of cancer prevention
Mechanism-based cancer prevention is poised to further decrease the numbers of U.S. cancer deaths, says MIT professor emerita.
Fighting implicit bias in STEM with increased cognitive control
In a visit with the Department of Biology, Lydia Villa-Komaroff PhD '75 explains how “thinking fast makes changing slow.”