Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis at MIT indicate that stitching ...

A new study reveals how the brain forms cohesive mental maps of spaces and highlights the critical role of sleep in this process.

Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis indicate that stitching together ...

MIT researchers have developed an environmentally friendly alternative to the harmful microbeads used in some health and beauty products. These new polymers break down into harmless sugars and amino ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suspended an Indian-origin PhD scholar over a pro-Palestine essay he wrote in the college magazine last month. Prahlad Iyengar, who is barred ...

As a modifier, it pertains to emotion, as in having feelings affected. With “Moving Objects,” which runs at the MIT Museum through April, both meanings apply. The 50 or so items in the show ...

MIT Technology Review welcomes pitches from freelance writers across a broad range of topics. We encourage writers of all skill levels, and from all backgrounds, to pitch us. We are especially ...

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks of the Japanese professional baseball league on Monday announced the signing of 19-year-old Taiwanese pitcher Zhang Jun-wei at a news conference in Taipei. Although details ...

Many of the most popular benchmarks for AI models are outdated or poorly designed. Every time a new AI model is released, it’s typically touted as acing its performance against a series of ...

But for Altera’s founder, Robert Yang, who quit his position as an assistant professor in computational neuroscience at MIT to start the company, this demo is just the beginning. He sees it as ...

Jiaqi Zhang, Graduate Student and Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Fellow, MIT Zhang collaborated with co-lead author Ryan Welch, a Master’s student in Engineering, and Senior Author Caroline Uhler ...

Zhilei Zhang will fight Agit Kabayel for the WBC Interim title, and Anthony Joshua "absolutely" can box the winner; Mauricio Sulaiman says the WBC wants to support the best fights in the sport ...