Miss a night of sleep, and your attention thins like fog at daybreak. New work from MIT shows that during those brief lapses, a literal wave of cerebrospinal fluid flushes out of the brain, a process that normally unfolds during sleep.
Oct 29, 2025
What happens when a cell forgets how to be itself? A sweeping new study from MIT's Picower Institute, published in Cell, shows that Alzheimer's disease strips brain cells of their ability to maintain stable patterns of gene regulation.
Sep 2, 2025
A simple truth is rattling the climate science world. Sometimes the old models work better than the new.
Aug 26, 2025
A dazzling cosmic flash has deepened the mystery of fast radio bursts. Using the newly completed CHIME Outrigger array, astronomers localized FRB 20250316A to a nearby galaxy with unprecedented 13 parsec precision.
Aug 21, 2025
What if light itself could be bent, switched, and reshaped at will? MIT researchers have now developed a new platform for manipulating light on the nanoscale, unveiling ultracompact optical devices that are efficient, reprogrammable, and adaptive.
Aug 17, 2025
Water has long been the gold standard for life, but new research from MIT suggests it may not be the only game in town.
Aug 15, 2025
MIT researchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to design entirely new antibiotics that can kill drug-resistant bacteria, including the notorious MRSA superbug and antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.
Aug 14, 2025
Living in a low-oxygen environment, like the thin air found at the base of Mount Everest, may slow or even reverse the progression of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study in mice.
Aug 6, 2025
At MIT, researchers have built a new computer graphics tool that allows users to visualize, edit, and even simulate the physics of "impossible objects," those brain-bending shapes that defy 3D space, like the Penrose triangle or Escher’s never-ending stairs.
Aug 5, 2025
When you see a ball bounce down stairs, your brain processes it differently than when you see water cascading the same way.
Jul 31, 2025
In a feat of atomic precision and quantum clarity, MIT physicists have pulled off the most idealized version yet of the famous double-slit experiment.
Jul 28, 2025
Hidden behind curtains of cosmic dust, some of the universe’s most dramatic events have gone unseen.
Jul 28, 2025
City streets have become less like town squares and more like conveyor belts. A new study using computer vision and artificial intelligence shows that…
Jul 25, 2025
In the busy circuitry of the brain, neurons have long taken the spotlight—but a new study shows that non-neural cells called astrocytes are quietly essential for keeping the show running.
Jul 22, 2025
