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A new MIT Libraries initiative aims to highlight MIT’s women faculty by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible their personal archives.

Amateur and professional musicians alike may spend hours pouring over YouTube clips to figure out exactly how to play certain parts of their favorite songs.

You see the flour in the pantry, so you reach for it. You see the traffic light change to green, so you step on the gas.

The diversity of structures and functions of the brain is becoming increasingly realized in research today. Key structures exist in the brain that regulate emotion, anxiety, happiness, memory, and mobility.

Research proposals from Laurie Boyer, associate professor of biology;

Many studies have shown that musical training can enhance language skills.

Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons.

Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language.

Swanny Lamboy Rodriguez is not one to complain.

Antonio Torralba has been named the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, effective immediately, Provost Martin Schmidt announced today in an email to the MIT community.