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For a nematode worm, a big lawn of the bacteria that it eats is a great place for it to disperse its eggs so that each hatchling can emerge into a nutritive environment.

Nitric oxide is an important signaling molecule in the body, with a role in building nervous system connections that contribute to learning and memory.

When neurons fire an electrical impulse, they also experience a surge of calcium ions.

We listen to music with our ears, but also our eyes, watching with appreciation as the pianist’s fingers fly over the keys and the violinist’s bow rocks across the ridge of strings.

We are free to wander, but usually when we go somewhere it’s for a reason.

In February, researchers from MIT and Takeda Pharmaceuticals joined together to celebrate the official launch of the

It’s a classic visual illusion: Two gray dots appear on a background that consists of a gradient from light gray to black.

By developing a lab-engineered model of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB), neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have discovered how the most common Alzheimer’s disease risk gene causes amylo

Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract.

Children Helping Science is a massive project connecting families to hundreds of online studies of developmental psychology and cognition that they can do from home. It could transform the field of cognitive development.