Tiny Tides is an automated fast-flow instrument that can synthesize peptide-nucleic acids in a single shot.

Communication breakdowns between doctors and their patients have real-life consequences and can result in poorer health outcomes and sicker patients.

Research shows that people with more flow in their lives had a higher sense of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists are beginning to explore what happens in the brain during flow.

MIT community members made headlines around the world for their innovative approaches to addressing problems local and global.

Vaccines and medical treatments can only go so far in an unequal society. Facing the ongoing history of racial discrimination and bias in the US would help end the pandemic.

A physician-bioethicist reflects on how health professionals are yet again facing painful reminders of the early months of the pandemic.

The year’s popular research stories include a promising new approach to cancer immunotherapy, the confirmation of a 50-year-old theorem, and a major fusion breakthrough.

Mathematical simulations show the new approach may offer faster, cheaper, and more accurate detection, including identifying new variants.

Masks definitely catch some of the virus laden aerosols and droplets - and that will reduce transmission between people and the number of cases of COVID-19.

Nearly all suicide-loss survivors experience guilt, wondering what they could have done to prevent it. But despite decades of research, experts struggle to identify risk factors and predict suicide.