Three-year fellowship will support Weissbourd’s research on how the C. hemisphaerica jellyfish survives and thrives by constantly making new neurons.

Study on blind patients who recovered their sight suggests rethinking the belief that babies learn to recognize human movement through visual exposure.

Field experiment in Bangladesh shows the poor simply lack opportunities to gain wealth — but a one-time boost can make a major difference.

PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.

MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.

Infection during pregnancy with elevated levels of the cytokine IL-17a may yield microbiome alterations that prime offspring for aberrant immune responses, mouse study suggests.

By temporarily suspending retinal activity in the non-amblyopic eye of animal models, neuroscientists restrengthen the visual response in the "lazy" eye, even at ages after the critical period when patch therapy fails.

A well-known protein family binds to many more RNA sequences than previously thought in order to help neurons grow.

In the Chinese city of Chengdu, one-third of ride-sharing might replace public transit trips.

Peter Reddien's lab at the Whitehead Institute takes a step forward in understanding how neural circuits could be regenerated in adults.