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The PhD student’s research on how microorganisms digest compounds in their environment could enable advances in wastewater treatment.
A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.
Bassler has been named the 2026 recipient of the society's Copley Medal, its oldest and most prestigious prize.
Dubbed “bifur-circuits,” these interactive building blocks could be used to develop reconfigurable robotic grippers or customized assistive devices.
Bittersweet goodbyes and jitters make way for excitement as Class of 2030 settles in on move-in day
Quiz based on Daniel Lieberman’s new book looks at food fads through evolutionary lens
More than 400 students participated in programs led by the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity.
Throughout his 60-year career, he pursued a single question: How does air move around an airplane, and how can that knowledge improve design?
The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically unstable designs.
Deindustrialization didn’t only hurt some workers, Daron Acemoglu says in a new book; it shrank the coalition supporting democracy, which needs expanding.
Electra’s hybrid, fixed-wing aircraft, which grew out of a class project, could make travel easier for passengers taking shorter trips.
Policy expert says new California law highlights need for national standards on safety labels to cut high levels of U.S. food waste