3 Questions: Roger Summons on finding organic matter on Mars
Discovery adds to evidence suggesting that Mars was at one time habitable.
Network of diverse noncoding RNAs acts in the brain
Scientists identify the first known network consisting of three types of regulatory RNAs.
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2018-19
Ranked at the top for the seventh straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 48 disciplines.
Protein pair quickly makes memories of new places
MIT researchers find that encountering novel contexts cues the brain to churn out neurogranin.
How the brain performs flexible computations
New neural model reveals how the brain adapts to new information.
An unexpected ambition borne from MIT experience
Annamarie Bair, a premed student turned computer science major, is drawn to the promise of artificial intelligence and health care.
Quantum physics student leaving MIT on a high note
Math and physics major Shaun Datta wraps up four years of pushing himself beyond his comfort zone by singing a cappella with the MIT Logarhythms.
Meet the School of Science’s tenured professors for 2018
Six faculty members are granted tenure in four departments.
Researchers devise new way to make light interact with matter
Reducing the wavelength of light could allow it to be absorbed or emitted by a semiconductor, study suggests.
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
Neural network could expedite complex physics simulations.
MIT Energy Initiative awards nine Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
Awardees will use grants to advance research in areas including energy storage, renewables expansion modeling, and the chemistry of electrocatalysts.
Michel Goemans named head of the Department of Mathematics
Award-winning applied mathematician and professor has served as interim department head for the past year.
Fighting toxic stress in children is tough but possible
Taking time to understand underlying causes of stress can help children escape debilitating health effects, symposium speakers argue.
Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention
Award honors top collegiate inventors in the United States.
Neuroscientists discover roles of gene linked to Alzheimer’s
Study reveals why people with the APOE4 gene have higher risk of the disease.