Month: October 2015

Imagine you are looking for your wallet on a cluttered desk. As you scan the area, you hold in your ...

Professor emeritus of chemistry and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Charles (Chuck) Shank is one of two ...

Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, core faculty of the Institute for ...

Robert Goldberg never spent much time thinking about fashion. All that changed six years ago, however, when as a visiting ...

Two young female postdoctoral fellows at UC Berkeley this week received $60,000 fellowships from the L’Oréal For Women in Science ...

Genetic research suggests that hundreds of genes are likely risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. This heterogeneity presents ...

Sleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep. However, MIT neuroscientists have ...

Keeping track of time is critical for many tasks, such as playing the piano, swinging a tennis racket, or holding ...

MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the effects of ...

When the eyes are open, visual information flows from the retina through the optic nerve and into the brain, which ...