About 20 percent of children in the United States have difficulty learning to read, and educators have…
People who suffer a stroke often undergo a brain scan at the hospital, allowing doctors to determine…
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A new study from MIT reveals that babies…
The human eye can perceive millions of different colors, but the number of categories human languages use…
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT has announced the establishment of a new center dedicated…
In the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, many of the genes required to form new memories are shut…
Synthetic biology allows scientists to design genetic circuits that can be placed in cells, giving them new…
The visual system can be “rebooted,” offering hope for restoring sight to the visually impaired, according to…
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism…
Scientists hoping to get a glimpse of molecules that control brain activity have devised a new probe…