In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth.

With $25 million investment from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MIT to build a new shared-use facility to serve as a statewide quantum toolbox.

By tracking eye movements in zebrafish, researchers identified four different types of sleep, analogous to the complex sleep patterns of humans and other animals.

The types of Ebola and hantavirus panicking officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether some risks have been overstated.

A new study of the postwar U.S. shows which kinds of workers historically filled new tech-enabled jobs.

The legendary radio astronomy telescope returns to its science and educational mission at MIT Haystack Observatory.

By rapidly generating a smooth path plan that cuts travel time and avoids obstacles, the open-source “MIGHTY” system could streamline disaster recovery and parcel delivery.

When it comes to emissions, individual driving patterns matter as much as how “green” the regional electricity mix is, MIT researchers report.

MIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.

Dwai Banerjee’s new book examines the visionaries who wanted to turn India into a world power at making computers.

An old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new “Y-zipper,” a three-sided fastener that snaps gear, robots, and art into shape at the push of a button.

President Sally Kornbluth spoke in front of a packed crowd about growing challenges to the U.S. research ecosystem as funding for America’s top research universities becomes increasingly strained

A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.

Building on a long-standing MIT–IBM collaboration, the new lab will chart the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum computing.

A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.

MIT researchers’ new fabrication technique can produce soft, microscopic structures with magnetically activated moving parts.

A new study reveals cellular pathways that appear to underlie some differences in physical fitness.

New research suggests constructing a simple building from interlocking subunits should be mechanically feasible and have a much smaller carbon footprint.

The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.

A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.

Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions.

Researchers use control theory to shed unnecessary complexity from AI models during training, cutting compute costs without sacrificing performance.

Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center.