3 Questions: Sara Prescott on the brain-body connection
New MIT faculty member investigates how sensory input from within the body controls mammalian physiology and behavior.
New MIT faculty member investigates how sensory input from within the body controls mammalian physiology and behavior.
Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan, Dina Katabi, Gregory Stephanopoulos, and seven additional alumni are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research.
With the new method, scientists can explore many cancer mutations whose roles are unknown, helping them develop new drugs that target those mutations.
Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.
The program supports early-career faculty who have strong potential to become leaders in their fields and to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
MIT engineers’ new technique analyzes the 3D organization of the genome at a resolution 100 times higher than before.
The 2023 competition featured three-minute talks on cutting-edge research from across MIT in an engaging, live competition.
Professor Emerita Nancy Hopkins and journalist Kate Zernike discuss the past, present, and future of women at MIT and beyond.
California blackworms tangle themselves up by the thousands, then separate in a split second. Their trick may inspire the design of self-detangling materials and fibers.
Fellowship funds graduate studies for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants.
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members.
With sustainability in mind, MIT’s EHS Lab Plastics Recycling Program gathers clean plastics from 212 MIT labs, recycling some 280 pounds per week.
The structure of the desert birds’ belly feathers enables males to carry water over long distances to their chicks.
Ming Guo seeks connections between a cell’s physical form and its biological function, which could illuminate ways to halt abnormal cell growth.
Developed at SMART, the therapy stimulates the host immune system to more effectively clear bacterial infections and accelerate infected wound healing.