Fan Wang’s studies of how the brain controls pain may one day lead to new…
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Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could…
The advance may enable real-time imaging devices that are smaller, cheaper, and more robust than…
Among adults who vary in their knowledge of number words, the ability to reason about…
Different types of these branch-like projections process incoming information in different ways before sending it…
A new analysis offers guidance on the size of nanoparticles that could be most effective…
The planet’s night side likely hosts iron clouds, titanium rain, and winds that dwarf Earth’s…
Thirty-six million people in the U.S. use an energy system developed by a handful of…
The startup r2c, founded by MIT alumni, offers a database of software security checks to…
MIT spinout Safi Organics uses farmers’ crop residue to make an organic fertilizer that can…
Single-cell gene expression analyses of human cerebrovascular cells can help reveal new drug targets for…
Passive solar evaporation system could be used to clean wastewater, provide potable water, or sterilize…
With a tensor language prototype, “speed and correctness do not have to compete … they…
Scientists including MIT’s Jacqueline Hewitt and Nicholas Kern share long-awaited results, getting closer to the…
The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics. The strongest part of a tree…
Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency…
Is an armed conflict imminent? As Russia masses military equipment near Ukraine borders, experts in…
MIT neuroscientists have developed a computer model that can answer that question as well as…