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One costly and time-consuming step in constructing a concrete building is creating the “formwork,” the wooden mold into which the

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which

Scientists have known for decades that certain neurons in the hippocampus are dedicated to remembering specific locations where an animal

Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of

After decades of working as a biologist at a Southern school with a Division 1 football team, coming to MIT was

It all began with a simple origami model.  As an undergrad at Harvard, Danna Freedman went to a professor’s office

When the prison doors first closed behind him more than 50 years ago, Lee Perlman, PhD ’89, felt decidedly unsettled.

A new type of glue developed by researchers from MIT and Germany combines sticky polymers inspired by the mussel with