Families can now participate in scientific research about cognitive development at MIT’s Early Childhood Cognition Laboratory (ECCL) when sitting on their couches. In Rio. Or Japan. Or Australia. MIT ...

Professor Pattie Maes deep insights working with her research team of Joanne Leong, Pat Pataranutaporn, Valdemar Danry are world leading in their translational research on tech-human interaction.

A promising new diagnostic test from MIT looks like it could be a game changer for rapidly diagnosing several important infectious diseases within minutes. While most tests can only look for one type ...

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MIT will now be able to access every single tweet ever published on Twitter — all in the name of research, of course. The MIT Media Lab announced Wednesday the creation of the Laboratory for Social ...

A pioneering mathematician and geneticist, Eric Lander helped lead the Human Genome Project, and now–in just two weeks–he has transformed the renowned MIT and Harvard Biomedical Research Lab into a ...

Billions of dollars are spent each year on efforts to alleviate poverty in the developing world. Yet there have been remarkably few systematic attempts to examine what actually works. All too often, ...