Researchers and staff from MIT, including from the Simons Center for the Social Brain, collaborated with schoolchildren with special needs to create art, have fun, and learn from each other.
New findings could help engineers design materials for light and heat management.
Known for her rigorous approach to science and her influential research, Pardue paved the way for women in science at MIT and beyond.
MIT researchers find wave activity on Saturn’s largest moon may be strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas.
A newly described technology improves the clarity and speed of using two-photon microscopy to image synapses in the living brain.
Three innovations by an MIT-based team enable high-resolution, high-throughput imaging of human brain tissue at a full range of scales, and mapping connectivity of neurons at single-cell resolution.
New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel’s timing to maximize signal-to-noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage.
In “Scientific InQueery,” LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students describe finding community and living their authentic lives in the research enterprise.
With their “T-REX” method, DNA embedded in the polymer could be used for long-term storage of genomes or digital data such as photos and music.
After 36 years and hundreds of titles, the executive editor reflects on his career as a “champion of rigorous and brilliant scholarship.”
Co-hosted by the McGovern Institute, MIT Open Learning, and others, the symposium stressed emerging technologies in advancing understanding of mental health and neurological conditions.
MIT neuroscientists have found that the brain uses the same cognitive representations whether navigating through space physically or mentally.
MIT scientists honored in each of the three Kavli Prize categories: neuroscience, nanoscience, and astrophysics, respectively.
A new downscaling method leverages machine learning to speed up climate model simulations at finer resolutions, making them usable on local levels.
Second annual assembly, sponsored by the Department of Biology and Picower Institute, invited postdocs from across the country to meet with faculty, present their work to the MIT community, and build relationships.