It’s difficult to build devices that replicate the fluid, precise motion of humans, but that might change if we could...

Within the human brain, a network of regions has evolved to process language. These regions are consistently activated whenever people...

Prototyping large structures with integrated electronics, like a chair that can monitor someone’s sitting posture, is typically a laborious and...

For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve — akin...

We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align...

A decade after scientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT first began testing whether sensory stimulation...

Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction,...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: When did human language as we know it emerge? A...

Many companies invest heavily in hiring talent to create the high-performance library code that underpins modern artificial intelligence systems. NVIDIA,...

Converting one type of cell to another — for example, a skin cell to a neuron — can be done...