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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.

MIT and Harvard University neuroscientists have found a link between a behavioral symptom of autism and reduced activity of a neurotransmitter whose job is to dampen neuron excitation.

Scientists have long wondered if the human brain contains neural mechanisms specific to music perception.

The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Researchers at MIT, New York University, and the University of Toronto have developed a computer system whose ability to produce a variation of a character in an unfamiliar writing system, on the first try, is indistinguis