Health
Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
A key finding: Early reopening last spring led to a dramatic drop in “quarantine strength” in southern and west-central U.S.
Dec 14, 2020
Technology
SMART researchers engineer a plant-based sensor to monitor arsenic levels in soil
Nanoscale devices integrated into the leaves of living plants can detect the toxic heavy metal in real time.
Dec 14, 2020
Health
Better RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy, dysfunctional cells.
Sequencing RNA from individual cells can reveal a great deal of information about what those cells are doing in the body.
Oct 14, 2020
Brain & Behavior
As information flows through brain’s heirarchy, higher regions use higher-frequency waves
To produce your thoughts and actions, your brain processes information in a hierarchy of regions along its surface, or cortex, ranging from “lower” areas that…
Sep 11, 2020
Earth & Environment
3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the tide of global warming
More than 90 percent of the world’s energy use today involves heat, whether for producing electricity, heating and cooling buildings and vehicles, manufacturing steel and cement, or other industrial activities.
Aug 11, 2020
Health
Neural vulnerability in Huntington’s disease tied to release of mitochondrial RNA
In the first study to comprehensively track how different types of brain cells respond to the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease (HD), MIT…
Jul 21, 2020
Technology
Cheetah learns to jump
In a leap for robot development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs — making this the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously.
Jun 1, 2015