Researchers create new simulation tool for robots to manipulate complex fluids in a step toward helping robots more effortlessly assist with daily tasks.

With full genetic control and visibility into neural activity and behavior, MIT scientists map out chemical’s role in behavior.

A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when they are guided to dream about a particular topic.

Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.

Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons’ ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new study shows.

SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.

Following cataract removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought.

On March 10 the FDA approved Trofinetide, a drug based on the protein IGF-1. The MIT professor's original research showing that IGF-1 could treat Rett was published in 2009.

MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks.

Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.