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The new Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will support leading postdocs to bring cutting-edge AI to bear on research in scientific discovery or music.

The newly identified pathways appear to relay emotional information that helps to shape the motivation to take action.

Professors Matthew Vander Heiden and Fan Wang, along with five MIT alumni, are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

The new study also identifies factors that can make these efforts more successful.

The devices could be a useful tool for biomedical research, and possible clinical use in the future.

Labs that can’t afford expensive super-resolution microscopes could use a new expansion technique to image nanoscale structures inside cells.

A new study adds evidence that consciousness requires communication between sensory and cognitive regions of the brain’s cortex.

The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures and Workshops presented inspiring examples of success, even as the event evoked frank discussions of the barriers that still hinder many women in science.

New dataset of “illusory” faces reveals differences between human and algorithmic face detection, links to animal face recognition, and a formula predicting where people most often perceive faces.

Elemind, founded by researchers from MIT, has developed a headband that uses acoustic stimulation to move people into a sleep state.