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Four faculty members and four others with MIT ties are recognized for pushing the boundaries of science and for creating highly inclusive and collaborative research environments.

Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, derails the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability.

The IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge helps students hone their entrepreneurship skills to create viable ventures for public good.

A study by MIT scientists supports “social good” as a cognitive approach to dealing with highly stressful events.

This new tool offers an easier way for people to analyze complex tabular data.

Drawing on evidence from neurobiology, cognitive science, and corpus linguistics, MIT researchers make the case that language is a tool for communication, not for thought.

Researchers and staff from MIT, including from the Simons Center for the Social Brain, collaborated with schoolchildren with special needs to create art, have fun, and learn from each other.

A newly described technology improves the clarity and speed of using two-photon microscopy to image synapses in the living brain.

Three innovations by an MIT-based team enable high-resolution, high-throughput imaging of human brain tissue at a full range of scales, and mapping connectivity of neurons at single-cell resolution.

New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel’s timing to maximize signal-to-noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage.