Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the…
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A new study finds that our brain cells rely on a circuit of inhibitory neurons to help ensure that the same images are represented consistently.…
As climate change amplifies the frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other extreme events in the United States and around the world, and the populations…
An MIT-led team has discovered evidence of a giant impact in the nearby HD 17255 star system, in which an Earth-sized terrestrial planet and a…
MIT researchers have developed a system that improves the speed and agility of legged robots as they jump across gaps in the terrain. Credit: Photo…
Researchers at MIT and BASF have developed a data-driven system that accelerates the process of discovering new 3D printing materials that have multiple mechanical properties.…
Haiti earthquake damage. Assistant professors Camilla Cattania and William Frank discuss the science behind the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti. On August 14, 2021,…
A model of the human nuclear pore complex depicts the major proteins that make up the pore’s three rings. Top to bottom: The Cytoplasmic Ring…
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions. As we interact with the world, we are constantly…
A deep model was trained on historical crash data, road maps, satellite imagery, and GPS to enable high-resolution crash maps that could lead to safer…
An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within the solar system’s protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the composition…
Images from the Perseverance rover confirm that Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake, researchers say. This Mastcam-Z enhanced color photo mosaic shows a butte…
Soumya Kannan is a 2021-22 Yang-Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics Graduate Student Fellow in the lab of MIT Professor Feng Zhang and co-first author with…
Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether an individual cancer patient will respond to a particular drug.…
In a regular icosahedron (purple), six main interior diagonals (red lines) make equal angles with each other. Credit: Image: Zilin Jiang How many lines can…
Deep learning identifies synergistic drug blends for treating viruses like SARS-CoV-2. The existential threat of Covid-19 has highlighted an acute need to develop working therapeutics…
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago. Some time in Earth’s early history, the planet took a…
Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car’s exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic…
Engineers have designed a relatively low-cost, energy-efficient approach to treating water contaminated with heavy metals. Engineers have designed a relatively low-cost, energy-efficient approach to treating…
Credit: MIT More than 10 percent of our genome is made up of repetitive, seemingly nonsensical stretches of genetic material called satellite DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic…