Making a decision requires juggling a set of options without getting them confused or losing track of them. A new MIT study shows how neurons encode information to maximize clarity throughout the process.

Patricia and James Poitras ’63 provide fellowships for graduate students and postdocs who will shape the future of mental health research.

This summer, BSG-MSRP-Bio student Marina Milea investigated how lung cancers become resistant to targeted therapies, gaining hands-on research experience in the Jacks Lab at the Koch Institute.

Made from “bioresorbable” materials, the new batteries could power capsules for drug delivery, sensing, and other applications.

Tracking down senescent cells, which accumulate as we age, could help diagnose age-related disorders and guide researchers working on new treatments.

The Climate Grand Challenges “New World of Weather” project shows how modeling, planning tools, and infrastructure analysis are translating research into real-world resilience.

Novel research expands scientific understanding of how RNA shapes the reading of genetic information.

The autonomous system could speed up testing of high-tech materials for applications such as solar cells, sensors, video displays, and quantum technologies.

A new device uses reconfigurable motion to mimic the firing behavior of a neuron, which could lead to more efficient computing.

This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical navigation in fields such as orthopedics and neurosurgery.

Researchers reveal how communities of marine bacteria divide the task of degrading fucoidan, a key player in ocean carbon storage.

The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when “pretty close” doesn’t cut it.

MIT researchers show implanted nanoantennas can be activated wirelessly to kill brain cancer cells without damage to healthy tissue.

Delivered at just the right time, this type of auditory stimulus can strengthen the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, which clears debris from the brain and keeps it healthy.

An MIT team has demonstrated a more efficient way to extract pure hydrogen gas from hydrogen carrier molecules.

In some regions of the world, the poorest people may spend about 50 percent of their income on food, while the richest spend about 5 percent.

The work is part of a multiyear effort to develop a distributed sensor network for relaying data collected from this critical region.

In the new method, cells package and export their RNA, enabling researchers to sequence and analyze the RNA without killing the cells.

This scalable process produces high-performance chips for applications like discreet wearables or pliable augmented-reality displays.

This advance could be a big step toward developing a scalable, practical quantum computer.

A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.

Due to physical and fundamental limitations, an earlier proposal for producing laserlike beams of neutrinos cannot be achieved, scientists report.

The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought — and a unified awareness of thought and experience — arises from analog computations, MIT neuroscientists argue in a new review.

A new study reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction, and other disorders.

Graduate student Lyonel Tanganco investigates how to improve public policy interventions and address challenges in nutrition, climate, and development.

The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.

Climate scientist Sai Ravela is using games to help coastal communities find creative adaptations to climate change.

New research offers support for the possibility that complex biological molecules could exist in the highly acidic environment of Venus’s cloud layer.

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

Dubbed “bifur-circuits,” these interactive building blocks could be used to develop reconfigurable robotic grippers or customized assistive devices.

The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically unstable designs.

Deindustrialization didn’t only hurt some workers, Daron Acemoglu says in a new book; it shrank the coalition supporting democracy, which needs expanding.

This discovery points toward new combination strategies against cancer, and may explain the iron buildup seen in disorders such as early-onset Parkinson’s disease.

MIT Sea Grant resident artist and acclaimed underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen captures an intimate look at courtship and communication in a hidden spawning spectacle off Cape Cod.

To keep track of what’s going on in front of it, the brain relies not only on what it sees, but also a comparison with what it just saw. A new study pinpoints the circuit that provides that service.

The discovery likely represents the earliest known evidence of a magnetic field in the infant solar system.

A new algorithm learns to anticipate the unprecedented scenarios that critical infrastructure and global supply chains are least prepared for.

MIT researchers find that activity in the brain’s language network is nearly identical in young and old people.

Researchers explore how a key factor can mitigate or promote tuberculosis transmission.

The new, more intuitive system could speed up the training process for excavator operators.

A new, scalable technique could enable powerful radars and sensors based on quantum technology that works at room temperature.

MIT researchers’ approach, which uses naturally occurring sugars as antifreeze, could make it easier for hospitals to deploy this type of cancer treatment.

In a new book, Paul Osterman details his research finding more than one-third of the country’s workers are “disposable,” with little security or chance of job advancement.

The new framework could streamline the design process of robotic grippers or aerospace components that exhibit complex behaviors found in nature.

By wiring together colonies of these bacteria, the researchers built circuits that can perform complicated calculations.

Neuroscientists have discovered circuits in the prefrontal cortex that can be repurposed to store different types of information.

A new study by MIT researchers shows that inhibiting caspase-1 can reduce the risk of tumor growth.

MIT researchers discovered a cellular dance that may offer clues to the development of cancer, asthma, and other diseases.

The new technique could help scientists learn how the entire brain works to generate decisions and emotions.

New understanding of how nuclear fuel breaks down and changes in an operating nuclear reactor could help keep some reactors running longer, will inform the next generation of nuclear reactor fuel systems.