When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume.
May 17, 2024
A team of neuroscientists argues in a new review article that studying beta rhythms, particularly between 14-30 Hz, is crucial for understanding how the brain controls cognitive processes or loses control in some disorders.
Apr 23, 2024
Researchers from MIT and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have developed a new approach to detecting and monitoring radioactive isotopes, drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the popular computer game "Tetris.
Apr 10, 2024
Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection that affects nearly half a million people in the United States every year.
Mar 19, 2024
Researchers at MIT have found a brain circuit that controls speaking and ensures that you only talk when breathing out, stopping when you breathe in.
Mar 7, 2024
When listening to music, the human brain appears to be biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios — for example, a series of…
Mar 4, 2024
As it trundles around an ancient lakebed on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is assembling a one-of-a-kind rock collection.
Mar 4, 2024
Individuals with mild cognitive impairment, especially of the “amnestic subtype” (aMCI), are at increased risk for dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease relative to cognitively healthy older adults.
Mar 1, 2024
When a human-AI conversation involves many rounds of continuous dialogue, the powerful large language machine-learning models that drive chatbots like ChatGPT sometimes start to collapse, causing the bots’ performance to rapidly deteriorate.
Feb 13, 2024
MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body.
Feb 12, 2024
In most materials, heat prefers to scatter. If left alone, a hotspot will gradually fade as it warms its surroundings.
Feb 9, 2024
A small device created by scientists at MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology could improve the safety and effectiveness of cell therapy treatments for patients with spinal cord injuries.
Feb 7, 2024
By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky Way galaxy, MIT physicists have found that stars further out in the galactic disk are traveling more slowly than expected compared to stars that are closer to the galaxy’s center.
Jan 29, 2024
A surprising MIT study published in Nature at the end of 2016 helped to spur interest in the possibility that light flickering at the frequency of a particular…
Jan 20, 2024
