Faculty from eight MIT science and engineering departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.

Sponges may be source of molecular fossils that significantly predate Cambrian explosion.

Killian Award recipient Tyler Jacks fosters interdisciplinary, innovative cancer research.

MIT senior and chemistry major will pursue graduate studies in the U.K.

Professor and director of the Broad Institute honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for outstanding contributions to science and society.

Protein that gives blood vessels and skin their stretchability has its molecular properties revealed.

Some tiny plankton may have big effect on ocean’s carbon storage.

Systematically searching DNA for regulatory elements indicates limits of previous thinking.

Chemists discover how a single enzyme maintains a cell’s pool of DNA building blocks.