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Researchers propose a challenge to the traditional view of how the brain uses its ability to categorize.

With a novel design, MIT researchers overcame a stubborn problem that has limited the effectiveness of chip-based systems for lidar.

MIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding...

The “MetaEase” technique provides a heads-up to potential scenarios that could cause long wait-times or outages.

Dwai Banerjee’s new book examines the visionaries who wanted to turn India into a world power at making computers.

New measurements of a hot Jupiter and its mini-Neptune companion suggest both planets formed surprisingly far away from their host...

Using advanced human cell cultures, MIT researchers tracked how two different mutations alter neural circuit development, and how each could...