Presentations targeted high-impact intersections of AI and other areas, such as health care, business, and education.

Study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.

Neural activity patterns can encode competing hypotheses about which landmark will lead to the correct destination.

Researchers redesign a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria, making it an efficient editor of human DNA.

After six weeks of practicing mindfulness with the help of a smartphone app, adults with autism reported lasting improvements in their well-being.

Since an MIT team introduced expansion microscopy in 2015, the technique has powered the science behind kidney disease, plant seeds, the microbiome, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.

New research using computational vision models suggests the brain’s “ventral stream” might be more versatile than previously thought.

A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.

McGovern Institute researchers develop a mathematical model to help define how modularity occurs in the brain — and across nature.

New methods light up lipid membranes and let researchers see sets of proteins inside cells with high resolution.