MIT biologists find highly concentrated droplets can help cells keep enzymes organized and control growth signals.

Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began....

Do we need quantum computers to fully understand complex chemical reactions? A new result, decades in the making, shows the...

The Quantum Systems Laboratory will catalyze quantum innovation and be open to government, academic, and industry researchers.

The low-temperature process could unlock cleaner lithium from America’s abundant hard rock while minimizing waste.

Using a catheter coated with carbon nanotubes, researchers can detect biomarkers produced by cancer cells in the bladder.

With $25 million investment from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MIT to build a new shared-use facility to serve as a...

Over hundreds of years, increasingly sophisticated instruments have revealed — and continue to reveal — the secrets of our star....

New MRI sensors developed at MIT sensitively detect target molecules in the brain and body.

Earth’s largest volcanic system, hidden in mountain chains under the sea, has long been assumed to erupt only quietly. The...