Single-cell database to propel biological studies
Whitehead team analyzes transcriptomes for roughly 70,000 cells in planarians, creates publicly available database to drive further research.
Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do
Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to analyze speech and music.
Or Hen receives 2018 Guido Altarelli Award
Assistant professor of physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science researcher recognized for major contributions to high energy and nuclear physics.
Eight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2018
Prestigious honor society announces 213 new members this year.
Featured video: MIT's meteorology pioneers
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences honors trailblazing professors Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz with a tribute to their lives and legacies.
Inaugural class of MIT-GSK Gertrude B. Elion Research Fellows selected
New fellowship program honoring trailblazing Nobel laureate awards four MIT postdocs focused on drug discovery and development.
Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Award honors immigrants’ contributions to the United States.
Countering mitochondrial stress
Scientists discover a pathway that monitors a protein import into mitochondria and elicits a cellular response when the process goes awry.
TESS readies for takeoff
Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones.
Meenakshi Chakraborty and Anna Sappington named 2018-2019 Goldwater Scholars
Two MIT computer science and molecular biology majors honored for their academic achievements.
Understanding microbial competition for nitrogen
Interactions among microorganisms account for nitrite accumulation just below the sunlit zone, with implications for oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Pioneering digital collaborations
MIT hosts a summit on transformative artificial intelligence technologies in biomedical sciences and health care.
Dense stellar clusters may foster black hole megamergers
Black holes in these environments could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything a single star could produce.
Fine-tuning fusion
Postdoc Theresa Wilks finds home on the west coast, helming an MIT collaboration with the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactor.
Timothy Swager receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
The fellowship supports top-tier researchers at U.S. universities whose high-risk, high-payoff work is of strategic importance to the Department of Defense.