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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.

More than a decade before people with Huntington’s disease (HD) show symptoms, they can exhibit abnormally high levels of an immune-system molecule called interleukin-6 (IL-6), which has led many researchers to suspect IL-

29 undergraduates and six graduate students received graduate degrees from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

The fast and efficient generation of random numbers has long been an important challenge.

Just three days before several dozen visitors were supposed to arrive, the department decided that Graduate Student Interview Weekend had to move online.