A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

A computer model developed at MIT in the early 1970s predicted that modern civilization would collapse sometime around 2040. The model, known as World3, simulated population growth, pollution, ...

Loureiro's colleagues in Cambridge and beyond are reflecting on his legacy in physics, teaching, and research leadership.

A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say.

Police are looking into whether a shooting that killed an MIT professor could be linked to the mass shooting incident at ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have launched Observer, the first multimodal medical dataset to capture anonymized, real-time interactions between patients and clinicians. Much like the ...

The majority of women in these relationships say they feel misunderstood, and that AI bots have helped them during periods of ...

As the immune system weakens with age, scientists have found a way to restore some of its lost strength. By delivering mRNA ...

As the immune system weakens with age, researchers have found a way to temporarily boost its function by reprogramming liver cells to support T-cell development.

Boston Dynamics product lead Aya Durbin discusses Atlas, industrial humanoid robots, and what it takes to make humanoids ...

The shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his home near Boston is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Nuno Loureiro, 47, from Portugal, was ...

Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro, the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center ...