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In 2010, a large study in Denmark found that women who suffered an infection severe enough to require hospitalization while pregnant were much more likely to have a child with autism (even though the overall risk of delive

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A new brain imaging study from MIT and Harvard Medical School may lead to a screen that could identify children at high risk of developing depression later in life.

The School of Science welcomes two new professors to the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences this spring semester:

Strengthening and weakening the connections between neurons, known as synapses, is vital to the brain’s development and everyday function.

The MIT School of Science has announced the 2016 winners of the Infinite Kilometer Award.

We humans take for granted our remarkable ability to predict things that happen around us.

The School of Science announced that six of its faculty members have been appointed to named professorships this fall semester.

The new appointments are:

Object-recognition systems are beginning to get pretty good — and in the case of Facebook’s face-recognition algorithms, frighteningly good.