“U.S. competitiveness depends less on defensive measures than on what we do to strengthen our own capacities,” says MIT’s vice president for research.

With the MIT campus as a test bed, a citizen science effort provides lessons well beyond MIT.

Postdocs who feel safe taking risks benefit MIT’s research community, says MIT’s vice president for research.

A new study found that COVID-19 messages tailored to Black audiences and presented by physicians of color did not enhance the effectiveness for minority participants.

A study by Harvard researchers demonstrates that jumping spiders can distinguish living from nonliving objects based on their movement.

History of Science Professor Naomi Oreskes examines the power of funding to shape science, for both better and worse, in her latest book, “Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean.”

Researchers find improvement in relative retention of women but predict decades of sustained effort are required to achieve gender parity.

A Harvard study could lead to potential therapeutics for one of the most prominent ailments of the elderly and one of the most prominent musculoskeletal defects in newborns.

Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics will head MIT’s longest continuously-running lab.

Professor Siqi Zheng promotes sustainable urbanization at MIT’s Center for Real Estate.