When it comes to numbers, culture counts
In a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the U.S., but on a delayed timetable.
MIT launches online lab to study early childhood learning
Families contribute to research via browser and webcam
Explained: How does a soccer ball swerve?
The smoothness of a ball’s surface — in addition to playing technique — is a critical factor.
High-performance computing programming with ease
Alan Edelman leads the global, open-source collaboration developing "Julia," a powerful but flexible programming language for high performance computing.
Synchronized brain waves enable rapid learning
MIT study finds neurons that hum together encode new information.
When good people do bad things
Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs, researchers find.
Smarter sensing
PhD student Joseph Azzarelli works on low-cost sensors to monitor the environment and save money.
Inside the adult ADHD brain
Brain scans differentiate adults who have recovered from childhood ADHD and those whose difficulties linger.
MIT graduates urged: “Solve the unsolvable!”
“Many of tomorrow’s problems are going to be solved by you,” DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman tells 2014 grads.
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the graduates
"Rebuild the engine of society until it delivers the kind of performance we expect from ourselves at MIT," president tells the Class of 2014.
Slideshow: 2014 doctoral hooding ceremony
Advanced degree candidates receive their doctoral hoods in advance of Commencement.