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There are many ways to divvy up a pile of cookies. Among the possibilities: Everyone can get an equal number, or those who contributed more to the cookie baking can get a larger share.

MIT researchers took home several awards last night at the 2016 Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

For decades, Alzheimer’s disease research has focused on neurons. That’s logical: after all, it’s our brain cells that become diseased, causing a decline in our memory and ability to think.

Imagine you are looking for your wallet on a cluttered desk. As you scan the area, you hold in your mind a mental picture of what your wallet looks like.

Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and an assistant professor in the MIT departments of Chemical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, is one of 18 in

Genetic research suggests that hundreds of genes are likely risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Sleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep.

Keeping track of time is critical for many tasks, such as playing the piano, swinging a tennis racket, or holding a conversation.

When the eyes are open, visual information flows from the retina through the optic nerve and into the brain, which assembles this raw information into objects and scenes.