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An image of a tree with long winding branches
February 20, 2025

How nature organizes itself, from brain cells to ecosystems

Look around, and you’ll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the brain organizes into regions.

MIT method enables ultrafast protein labeling of tens of millions of densely packed cells
February 6, 2025

MIT method enables ultrafast protein labeling of tens of millions of densely packed cells

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David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Tissue processing advance can label proteins at the level of individual cells across large samples just as fast and uniformly as in dissociated single cells.
Evelina Fedorenko receives Troland Award from National Academy of Sciences
January 29, 2025

Evelina Fedorenko receives Troland Award from National Academy of Sciences

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Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Cognitive neuroscientist is recognized for her groundbreaking discoveries about the brain’s language system.
Gerald Schneider
January 24, 2025

Professor Emeritus Gerald Schneider, discoverer of the ‘two visual systems,’ dies at 84

Gerald E. Schneider, a professor emeritus of psychology and member of the MIT community for over 60 years, passed away on Dec. 11, 2024. He was 84.

Modeling complex behavior with a simple organism
January 21, 2025

Modeling complex behavior with a simple organism

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Anne Trafton | MIT News
By studying the roundworm C. elegans, neuroscientist Steven Flavell explores how neural circuits give rise to behavior.
Three MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars
January 15, 2025

Three MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars

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Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships
Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii will spend 2025-26 at Tsinghua University in China studying global affairs.
How one brain circuit encodes memories of both places and events
January 15, 2025

How one brain circuit encodes memories of both places and events

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Anne Trafton | MIT News
A new computational model explains how neurons linked to spatial navigation can also help store episodic memories.
For healthy hearing, timing matters
January 14, 2025

For healthy hearing, timing matters

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Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Machine-learning models let neuroscientists study the impact of auditory processing on real-world hearing.
Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces
January 10, 2025

Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces

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David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Place cells are known to encode individual locations, but research finds stitching together a “cognitive map” of a whole environment requires a broader ensemble of cells, aided by sleep, over several days.
Teaching AI to communicate sounds like humans do
January 9, 2025

Teaching AI to communicate sounds like humans do

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Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL
Inspired by the mechanics of the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The method could help build new sonic interfaces for entertainment and education.
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