The new observations record a key crossover from classical to quantum behavior.
MIT researchers are testing a simplified turbulence theory’s ability to model complex plasma phenomena using a novel machine-learning technique.
Extra chromosome alters chromosomal conformation and DNA accessibility in neural progenitor cells; study establishes senescence as a potentially targetable mechanism for future treatment.
Protection is afforded infants against disease-causing bacteria
Compound limits magnesium transport in cellular power plants called mitochondria.
Tiny Tides is an automated fast-flow instrument that can synthesize peptide-nucleic acids in a single shot.
Obesity in midlife and in women most closely linked to dementia
Drug target that revs up energy expenditure, reduces appetite identified
Mathematics faculty Semyon Dyatlov, Michel Goemans, and Richard Stanley, along with David Williamson PhD ’93, receive AMS prizes.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
Discovery allows scientists to study crucial intermediate in battery development.
New work on superconducting kagome metal will aid design of other unusual quantum materials, with many potential applications.
The new qubits stay in “superposition” for up to 10 seconds, and could make a promising foundation for quantum computers.
An accidental discovery and a love of spectroscopic perturbations leads to the solution of a 90-year-old puzzle.
MIT biologists drilled down into how proteins recognize and bind to one another, informing drug treatments for cancer.
The technique can help predict a cell’s path over time, such as what type of cell it will become.
Thermal span in a layered compound promises applications in next-generation electrical switches and nonvolatile memory.
Among adults who vary in their knowledge of number words, the ability to reason about numbers is bound by the highest number they can count to.
Neutron scattering reveals coherent waves of ‘spin excitons’ in nickelate crystal
2D polymers likely candidates for large-scale multifunctional applications