Ahoy! First ocean vesicles spotted
Scientists discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes.
Scientists discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes.
MIT is one of six institutions receiving a total of $540 million to provide reliable, long-term support for high-impact, innovative research.
Pioneer in gene regulation transformed MIT’s Department of Biology as department head from 1967 to 1977.
Researchers find immense heating at high pressures helps spread intermediate-depth quakes.
Marshall Scholar Kirin Sinha is motivating young women to pursue math through dance.
New approach to use of 2-D carbon material opens up unexpected properties, could unleash new uses.
Biologist’s six-year administrative tenure focused on educational initiatives and on diversity and inclusiveness among faculty and postdocs.
New research shows negative absolute temperatures — and perpetual motion machines — are still out of reach.
Certain strains of Toxoplasma provoke inflammation that can damage host cells, while others are harmless.
Method will help scientists determine the mass of exoplanets that are not measurable in any other way.
Rhodes Scholar John Mikhael, who calls both the U.S. and Lebanon home, is also comfortable in many scientific fields.
Computer models plus observations of RNA inside a cell help scientists home in on a short list of interesting RNA ‘machines.’
Sulfurous chemical known as ‘smell of the sea’ serves as clarion call for coral pathogens.
Research shows the success of a bacterial community depends on its shape.