A potential new Alzheimer’s drug represses the harmful inflammatory response of the brain’s immune cells, reducing disease pathology, preserving neurons, and improving cognition in preclinical tests.
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center will receive DoE support to improve access to fusion data and increase workforce diversity.
By synchronizing media streams transmitted from the cloud to two devices, researchers could improve cloud gaming and AR/VR applications.
The frosty gas giant was discovered in a system that also hosts a warm Jupiter.
Labs in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia will be led by J-PAL with support from Community Jameel.
Researchers compared a pair of superficially similar motor neurons in fruit flies to examine how their differing use of the same genome produced distinctions in form and function.
The findings point to faster way to detect bacteria in food, water, and clinical samples.
The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology selects three new research projects to support.
With a new technique, a robot can reason efficiently about moving objects using more than just its fingertips.
In new research, MIT linguists explore how human language handles leaps from the here and now.
MIT researchers model and create an atlas for how neurons of the worm C. elegans encode its behaviors, make findings available on their “WormWideWeb.”
Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) will design technology, training programs, and institutions for successful human-machine collaboration.
With this new approach, a tailsitter aircraft, ideal for search-and-rescue missions, can plan and execute complex, high-speed acrobatic maneuvers.
MIT researchers are converting the plant material lignin into hydrocarbon molecules that could help make jet fuel 100 percent sustainable.
MIT system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density compared with current systems.