How the brain, with sleep, maps space
Scientists have known for decades that certain neurons in the hippocampus are dedicated to remembering specific locations where an animal
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Bug-size robots that fly and flip could pollinate futuristic farms’ crops
Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of
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The Institute’s greatest ambassadors
After decades of working as a biologist at a Southern school with a Division 1 football team, coming to MIT was
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The Download: what Trump’s tariffs mean for climate tech, and hacking AI agents
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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The Download: creating “spare” human bodies, and ditching US AI models
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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Laser imaging peers deeper into living tissue
Metabolic imaging is a valuable noninvasive method for studying living cells with laser light, but it’s been constrained by the
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This is your brain on movies
The cerebral cortex contains regions devoted to processing different types of sensory information, including visual and auditory input. Now researchers
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Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells
Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and learn from physical functions such as heart rates
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An environmentally friendly alternative to plastic microbeads
The tiny beads added to some cleansers and cosmetics are one source of the long-lasting microplastics that threaten the environment.
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