In China, a link between happiness and air quality
Moods expressed on social media tend to decline when air pollution gets worse, study finds.
Moods expressed on social media tend to decline when air pollution gets worse, study finds.
Technique could yield insights into complex proteins involved in Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
New 3-D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
Findings could help inform new therapies, improve diagnosis.
Whitehead Institute researchers uncover a group of introns in yeast that possess surprising stability and function.
Vinod Vaikuntanathan aims to improve encryption in a world with growing applications and evolving adversaries.
Research by neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory helps explain how the brain regulates arousal.
Tool for nonstatisticians automatically generates models that glean insights from complex datasets.
Theoretical analysis distinguishes observed “holes” from the huge list of hypothetically possible ones.
Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.
Substantial refinements of three-photon microscopy allow for novel discoveries in neuroscience.
An expert in instrumentation and early universe observations, Simcoe succeeds Jacqueline Hewitt as head of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
Pulse pattern suggests distant black hole must be spinning at least at 50 percent the speed of light.
Researchers use CHIME telescope to detect fast radio bursts at low frequencies and a second repeating burst.
Halo of highly energized electrons around the black hole contracts dramatically during feeding frenzy.