Research reveals a gender gap in the nation’s biology labs
Study of 24 top institutions finds ‘elite’ male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women.
How cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
Study reveals how shape and chemistry let feathers shed water after emerging from great depths.
From contemporary syntax to human language’s deep origins
New paper amplifies hypothesis that human language builds on birdsong and speech forms of other primates.
Tania Baker steps down as head of the Department of Biology
Alan Grossman to serve as interim department head
Sallie “Penny” Chisholm receives MIT’s Killian Award
Highest honor for MIT faculty members goes to pioneer of research on ocean’s photosynthetic organisms.
Chemotherapy timing is key to success
Nanoparticles that stagger delivery of two drugs knock out aggressive tumors in mice.
Mixing it up
Relocation brings together materials scientist, theoretical and experimental physicists as Physics of Living Systems group at MIT.
Four professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Acemoglu, Brown, Grossman, and Grove bring to 77 the number of MIT faculty who are NAS members.
Ocean microbes display remarkable genetic diversity
One species, a few drops of seawater, hundreds of coexisting subpopulations.
Creative abilities
From Boston to Bangalore, MIT senior Priyanka Saha uses technology to empower people with disabilities.
Tough as nails, yet clear enough to read through
MIT researchers uncover the secrets behind a marine creature’s defensive armor — one that is exceptionally tough, yet optically clear.
New respect for primary visual cortex
A previously underappreciated brain region performs complex sequence learning.