Despite the disruption caused by the pandemic, MIT students have carved out meaningful hands-on experiences.

Computational method for screening drug compounds can help predict which ones will work best against tuberculosis or other diseases.

National Science Foundation awards proposal for space weather modeling.

New research points to why reopening elementary schools is the safest bet and what else needs to happen for schools to have the best chance of staying open.

Nobody expected that allowing more communication would make computational problems more reliable.

Findings also suggest exoplanets lying within habitable zones may be susceptible to ice ages.

We wanted to find out which biological phenomena are crucial for pattern formation and which are just incidental. These sorts of questions can be answered with mathematical modelling.

A vaccine that's 70% effective might not be good enough if too few people are willing to be vaccinated, new research shows.

A vaccine that's 70% effective might not be good enough if too few people are willing to be vaccinated, new research shows.

In the absence of a vaccine or highly effective treatments for COVID-19, combining isolation and intensive contact tracing with physical distancing