Menopause is a downright bizarre trait among animals. It’s also rare. Outside of the human species, only the female members of two whale species outlive their reproductive lives in such a major […]
Menopause is a downright bizarre trait among animals. It’s also rare. Outside of the human species, only the female members of two whale species outlive their reproductive lives in such a major […]
Can loving and supportive parents unintentionally encourage their children to define their self-worth through possessions? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, children who receive more material rewards […]
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management. by Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office Computer-network security breaches are never out of the news for […]
Pi Day is coming on March 14! And not just any old Pi Day, but an “Epic Pi Day” on 3.14.15 at 9:26:53; that date/time corresponds to the first 10 digits of […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water […]
Brisbane researchers have proven that a community dance program can improve the health and wellbeing of people living with Parkinson’s disease. In the first study of its kind in Australia, neuroscience, psychology […]
Author: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall information, also known as fluid intelligence, peaks around age 20 and then […]
by Princeton University Communications The discovery that the human brain continues to produce new neurons in adulthood challenged a major dogma in the field of neuroscience, but the role of these neurons […]
author: Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office If you live in a city, you know that a fair amount of your movement around town is social in nature. But how much, exactly? […]
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Scientists have been searching […]
Can uncertainty motivate people to work harder? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people will often put in more effort to obtain uncertain rewards. “When comparing the […]
‘This is the first stone coffin in Leicester to be excavated using modern archaeological practices. This makes it a unique discovery which will provide important new insights into the lives of the […]
Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave. However, there has never been an experiment able to capture both natures of light at the same […]
dSysMap (which stands for “Disease-mutations Systemic Mapping”) is a computational tool to interpret the effect of genetic mutations on the development of complex diseases. The tool allows researchers to explore how alterations […]