From labs to the streets, experts work to defuse childhood threats to mental health
Symposium speakers describe numerous ways to promote prevention, resilience, healing, and wellness after early-life stresses.
40 Hz vibrations reduce Alzheimer’s pathology, symptoms in mouse models
Tactile stimulation improved motor performance, reduced phosphorylated tau, preserved neurons and synapses, and reduced DNA damage, a new study shows.
Computational model mimics humans’ ability to predict emotions
Using insights into how people intuit others’ emotions, researchers have designed a model that approximates this aspect of human social intelligence.
CoCo: A real-time co-creative learning platform for young people
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments.
Even lawyers don’t like legalese
A new study shows lawyers find simplified legal documents easier to understand, more appealing, and just as enforceable as traditional contracts.
Tackling the MIT campus’s top energy consumers, building by building
A full-building energy efficiency project aims to reduce total campus emissions by 2 percent.
Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working
It’s more important than ever for artificial intelligence to estimate how accurately it is explaining data.
Helping robots handle fluids
Researchers create a new simulation tool for robots to manipulate complex fluids in a step toward helping them more effortlessly assist with daily tasks.
From molecular to whole-brain scale in a simple animal, study reveals serotonin’s effects
With full genetic control and visibility into neural activity and behavior, MIT scientists map out chemical’s role in behavior.
3 Questions: Sara Prescott on the brain-body connection
New MIT faculty member investigates how sensory input from within the body controls mammalian physiology and behavior.
MIT School of Science announces 2023 Infinite Mile Awards
Seven staff members honored for their dedication to the School of Science and to the Institute.
That moment when you’re nodding off is a sweet spot for creativity
A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when they are guided to dream about a particular topic.
Three from MIT named 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
The fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.
Training machines to learn more like humans do
Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.
Scientists discover how mutations in a language gene produce speech deficits
Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons’ ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new study shows.