The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored five MIT community members for their contributions to physics: Professor Wit Busza, Instructor Karol Bacik, postdocs Cari Cesarotti and Chao Li, and Pablo...
Recognizing his research advancing understanding of how the brain changes with experience by altering the strength of connections among neurons, a phenomenon called “synaptic plasticity,” the Society for Neuroscience (SfN)...
By Maximilian HeathBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -When Argentine libertarian Javier Milei announced his entry into politics in 2020 in a bid to "blow up" the system, few predicted that three years...
Others included emphasizing the scientific consensus on the facts and framing climate action as either a patriotic or a popular choice. Overall, while responses varied significantly among geographic location and...
Millennial and Gen-Z women say they've been inspired to convert to Islam by the Israel-Hamas war - and are sharing their religious awakenings on TikTok. Many of the videos from...
During the construction of the Suez Canal, people from Europe traveled to Egypt in search of work. Historian Lucia Carminati believes that their stories are an important corrective to how...
Millennials are often positioned as the victims of social changes that have made employment and family life less stable. Most of these individuals were economically worse off at 35 than...
Twenty-three New York University faculty members are recognized as pioneers in their fields and have been named to Clarivate Analytics’ 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers. The annual list identifies...
MIT professors Gene-Wei Li and Michael Birnbaum are among the 12 researchers named 2023 Innovation Fund investigators by The Pew Charitable Trusts. A biophysicist, Gene-Wei Li, an associate professor in...
The study, published today in Stem Cell Reports, also identifies a drug target to ‘plug’ these leaks and prevent so-called small vessel disease in the brain. Cerebral small vessel disease...