New research suggests daily mindfulness training at home helped reduce kids’ stress levels and negative emotions.

In a simple game that humans typically ace, mice learn the winning strategy, too, but refuse to commit to it, new research shows.

New soft-bodied robots that can be controlled by a simple magnetic field are well suited to work in confined spaces.

Training artificial neural networks with data from real brains can make computer vision more robust.

The first RNA-guided DNA-cutting enzyme found in eukaryotes, Fanzor could one day be harnessed to edit DNA more precisely than CRISPR/Cas systems.

MIT engineers’ new technology can probe the neural circuits that influence hunger, mood, and a variety of diseases.

Tactile stimulation improved motor performance, reduced phosphorylated tau, preserved neurons and synapses, and reduced DNA damage, a new study shows.

Using insights into how people intuit others’ emotions, researchers have designed a model that approximates this aspect of human social intelligence.

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

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