Tag: Science

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 ...

NanoFab Equipment Management and Operations (NEMO) system streamlines shared facilities management via tool trainings, reservations, and lab communications.

An old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new “Y-zipper,” a three-sided fastener that snaps gear, robots, and ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense ...

By monitoring these chromosomal structures over many timescales, MIT researchers found that chromatin helps bring genes closer to their regulatory ...