Babies can tell who has close relationships based on one clue: saliva
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
Merging design, tech, and cognitive science
Senior Ibuki Iwasaki seeks creative ways to design technology that considers the human user.
Brave Behind Bars: Prison education program focuses on computing skills for women
MIT computer scientists and mathematicians offer an introductory computing and career-readiness program for incarcerated women in New England.
Clean room as classroom
Undergraduate classes provide hands-on introduction to nanotechnology and nanoengineering at MIT.nano.
Seeing the natural world through a mathematical lens
Senior David Darrow’s love of math fuels other passions such as mentoring and learning new languages.
Four with MIT ties honored with 2022 American Mathematical Society prizes
Mathematics faculty Semyon Dyatlov, Michel Goemans, and Richard Stanley, along with David Williamson PhD ’93, receive AMS prizes.
Three with MIT ties win 2022 Churchill Scholarships
Seniors David Darrow and Tara Venkatadri and HST student James Diao will pursue master’s programs at Cambridge University.
Synthesis too slow? Let this robot do it.
Tiny Tides is an automated fast-flow instrument that can synthesize peptide-nucleic acids in a single shot.
In Down syndrome cells, genome-wide disruptions mimic a senescence-like state
Extra chromosome alters chromosomal conformation and DNA accessibility in neural progenitor cells; study establishes senescence as a potentially targetable mechanism for future treatment.
Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense “glue”
The discovery could offer a route to smaller, faster electronic devices.
Understanding air pollution from space
Arlene Fiore uses satellite data paired with ground observations to refine our understanding of ozone smog and interactions with meteorology and climate.
Richard Cohen: Pioneering biomedical research and education at MIT for half a century
The physician, scientist, and professor has made influential contributions to the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology since it began 50 years ago.
Making computation come alive
A new course teaches students how to use computational techniques to solve real-world problems, from landing a spacecraft to placing cell phone towers.
Seeing the plasma edge of fusion experiments in new ways with artificial intelligence
MIT researchers are testing a simplified turbulence theory’s ability to model complex plasma phenomena using a novel machine-learning technique.
Physicists watch as ultracold atoms form a crystal of quantum tornadoes
The new observations record a key crossover from classical to quantum behavior.