MIT undergraduate researchers Helena Merker, Harry Heiberger, and Linh Nguyen, and PhD student Tongtong Liu, exploit machine-learning techniques to determine the magnetic structure of materials.
Known as PASTE, the technique holds potential for treating a variety of diseases caused by faulty genes.
The MIT senior will pursue postgraduate studies in computer science in Ireland.
New observations show the deepest parts of the quasar's plasma jet in a project led by MIT Haystack Observatory.
In people carrying APOE4, a key brain cell mismanages cholesterol needed to insulate neurons properly — another sign APOE4 contributes to disease by disrupting brain lipids.
Researchers harness new pooled, image-based screening method to probe the functions of over 5,000 essential genes in human cells.
New prize program recognizes MIT researchers who make data openly accessible and reusable.
Scientists hypothesize that, as in a hibernating turtle, the brain under sedation and deprived of oxygen may assume a protective state.
Researchers have discovered that the brains of these simple fish can create three-dimensional maps of their surroundings.
Koch Institute event celebrates the new MIT Press biography “Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America.”
Society for Neuroscience honors BCS professor for breakthrough research modeling a component of the brain’s navigational system.
Seven professors join the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics.
Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.
As NASA launches Artemis I, MIT experts weigh in on the importance of the mission to future space exploration.
Students describe what it’s like to compete at the very top tiers of computing.