With support from the Siegel Family Endowment, the newly renamed MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence investigates how brains produce intelligence and how it can be replicated to solve problems.
Learning more about this structure could help scientists find ways to block Tau from forming tangles in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients.
The protein, known as intelectin-2, also helps to strengthen the mucus barrier lining the digestive tract.
The program recognizes outstanding mentorship of graduate students.
Time and again, an unassuming roundworm has illuminated aspects of biology with major consequences for human health.
The inaugural MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) Annual Event showcased the breadth of projects supported in the first year of the presidential initiative.
As these events become more common at midlatitudes, a phenomenon called an atmospheric inversion will determine how long they last.
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
Top stories highlighted the Institute’s leading positions in world and national rankings; new collaboratives tackling manufacturing, generative AI, and quantum; how one professor influenced hundreds of thousands of students around the world; and more.
Concrete batteries, AI-developed antibiotics, the ozone’s recovery, and a more natural bionic knee were some of the most popular topics on MIT News.
New research suggests liver cells exposed to too much fat revert to an immature state that is more susceptible to cancer-causing mutations.
MIT physicists say these quasiparticles may explain how superconductivity and magnetism can coexist in certain materials.
Research illustrates how areas within the brain’s executive control center tailor messages in specific circuits with other brain regions to influence them with information about behavior and feelings.
From robotics to apps like “NerdXing,” senior Julianna Schneider is building technologies to solve problems in her community.
Global Change Outlook report for 2025 shows how accelerated action can reduce climate risks and improve sustainability outcomes, while highlighting potential geopolitical hurdles.