Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don’t
MIT neuroscientists find even high-performing schools don’t influence their students’ abstract reasoning.
New sensor tracks zinc in cells
Shifts in zinc’s location could be exploited for early diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Balancing old and new skills
MIT model explains how the brain can learn novel tasks while still remembering what it has already learned.
Michael Sipser named interim dean of the School of Science
Mathematician has been a member of the faculty since 1980 and department head since 2004.
You can’t get entangled without a wormhole
MIT physicist finds the creation of entanglement simultaneously gives rise to a wormhole.
Storing carbon in the Arctic
While the Arctic Ocean is largely a carbon sink, researchers find parts are also a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Researchers unlock a new means of growing intestinal stem cells
Studying these cells could lead to new treatments for diseases ranging from gastrointestinal disease to diabetes.
Pills of the future: nanoparticles
Researchers design drug-carrying nanoparticles that can be taken orally
Five from MIT named AAAS fellows
The professors were recognized by their peers for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
'Let’s just do science': The origins of the graduate climate conference
The Graduate Climate Conference, led by MIT graduate students in 2013, is an entirely student-run endeavor with a streak of rebellion.
A possible cause of the end-Permian mass extinction: Lemon juice?
MIT researchers find that rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to massive die-offs on land 252 million years ago.
A physicist, an athlete, and an engineer
MIT senior Margo Batie plays hard on the rugby field and works hard in the physics lab.
John Mikhael ’13 wins Rhodes Scholarship
Recent MIT graduate in mathematics, who has also conducted research in neuroscience, will study at Oxford next year.
Asteroids' close encounters with Mars
Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids.