Brain rhythms are key to learning
New study from MIT neuroscientists finds that brain waves shift frequency as a new task becomes routine.
MIT announces Professor Gilbert Strang as first MathWorks Professor of Mathematics
Endowment underscores value commercial industry places on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education
A heart of gold
New cardiac patch uses gold nanowires to enhance electrical signaling between cells, a promising step toward better treatment for heart-attack patients.
3 Questions: Faster than light?
MIT physicist Peter Fisher answers questions about reports that experiments in Switzerland and Italy show neutrinos can break light’s speed limit.
Dyslexia independent of IQ
Brain-imaging study suggests that reading difficulties are the same regardless of overall intelligence — and that more children could benefit from support in school.
How to reverse general anesthesia
Neuroscientists find that Ritalin could help bring surgical patients out of surgery much more quickly, with less grogginess.
MIT hosts Math Prize for Girls
More than 250 high school girls converge on campus for competition and community.
Five from MIT win NIH grants
Grants support biomedical research that will ‘challenge the status quo’ with risk-taking, innovative ideas.
Science school for judges
MIT and the Broad Institute open their doors to the judicial community for a workshop at the intersection of science and the law.
‘I speak MISTI’
MIT program sends students abroad for experiences tailor-made for their academic and professional interests.
3 Questions: John Gabrieli on studying traumatic memories
Sept. 11, 2001, is a day that lives in infamy. But how accurately do we remember it?
Localizing language in the brain
New study pinpoints areas of the brain used exclusively for language, providing a partial answer to a longstanding debate in cognitive science.