MIT researchers have found regions of the infant visual cortex that show strong preferences for either faces, bodies, or scenes, just as they do in…
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A new study confirms that as atoms are chilled and squeezed to extremes, their ability to scatter light is suppressed. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT How…
Ruonan Han seeks to push the limits of electronic circuits. Ruonan Han’s research is driving up the speeds of microelectronic circuits to enable new applications…
: By mimicking photosynthesis, MIT researchers have designed a new type of photocatalyst that can absorb light and use it to help catalyze a variety…
Instrumentation setup in the Quantum Engineering Group at MIT to study dynamical symmetries with qubits in diamond crystals. Credit: Guoqing Wang/MIT MITMIT is an acronym…
Human neurons have fewer ion channels, which might have allowed the human brain to divert energy to other neural processes. Neurons communicate with each other…
Through imaging and spectral mapping, NASA’s Lucy mission will give scientists the first close-up view of the topography and chemical composition of the Trojan asteroids,…
The self-driving Roboat, with refined perception, navigation, and control systems, prepares to set sail in Amsterdam. Credit: Photo courtesy of MIT CSAIL If you don’t…
“In astrophysics, we have only this one universe which we can observe,” Mark Vogelsberger, an MITMIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…
Artist’s conception of the epitaxial growth of a chalcogenide perovskite thin film. The material represents a new family of semiconductors. Credit: Felice Frankel Ultrastable and…
Comparison of four oxidation-based cleaners suggests the devices produce their own pollutants and vary in effectiveness. Consumer-grade air cleaners that promise to reduce indoor levels…
Aavia is combining education, community, and technology to empower people to understand and control their hormone cycles. Credit: Aavia, edited by MIT News Alumna-founded Aavia…
MIT researchers have discovered a gene linked to cognitive resilience in the elderly. Environmental enrichment, they find, appears to activate the MEF2 protein, which controls…
A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions. Robots can deliver food on a college campus and hit a hole-in-one on…
Fluorescence microscopy image of a tumor sample where elevated levels of hydrogen peroxide have been discovered. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers A screening method…
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in the brain. In the past few years, artificial intelligence models…
A model might make a shortcut solution and learn to identify images of cows by focusing on the green grass that appears in the photos,…
A new study from MIT and Massachusetts Eye and Ear provides evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect cells of the inner ear. Credit: Christine…
A new RNARibonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule similar to DNA that is essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression…
The researchers took this image of a tumor using immunofluorescence, a technique that allows them to stain tissue sections with fluorescently-labeled antibodies or dyes. Blue…