Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation...

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them....

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that...

MIT CSAIL researchers found a way to exploit a split-second gap in chip security — and used it to acquire...

Dubbed “bifur-circuits,” these interactive building blocks could be used to develop reconfigurable robotic grippers or customized assistive devices.

To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post...

The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically...

Deindustrialization didn’t only hurt some workers, Daron Acemoglu says in a new book; it shrank the coalition supporting democracy, which...

This discovery points toward new combination strategies against cancer, and may explain the iron buildup seen in disorders such as...

MIT Sea Grant resident artist and acclaimed underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen captures an intimate look at courtship and communication in...