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Most neurons have many branching extensions called dendrites that receive input from thousands of other neurons. Dendrites aren’t just passive information-carriers, however.

Members of the Course 9 Class of 2019 shared their MIT experiences with us and offered up words of advice for incoming students.

Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa can tell the weather and crack a good joke, but any 8-year-old can carry on a better conversation.

Starting in 2008, as she pursued dual undergraduate degrees in physics, and nuclear science and engineering (NSE), and then a doctorate in health sciences and technology, there has been one constant in Agata Wiśniowska's l

We humans are very good at collaboration.

When making a complex decision, we often break the problem down into a series of smaller decisions.

Several years ago, MIT neuroscientists showed that they could dramatically reduce the amyloid plaques seen in mice with Alzheimer’s disease simply by exposing the animals to light flickering at a specific frequency.

MIT neuroscientists have performed the most rigorous testing yet of computational models that mimic the brain’s visual cortex.

MIT researchers have performed the first comprehensive analysis of the genes that are expressed in individual brain cells of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.