Nancy Kanwisher

Professor Emeritus Richard Wurtman, a neuroscientist who spent more than four decades on the MIT faculty, died at age 86. Wurtman led research behind 200 patents, laying the groundwork for numerous medical products.

MIT senior Lara Ozkan has been named a winner of the 2025 Marshall Scholarship. The computer science and molecular biology major will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University and Imperial College London.

At the MIT Quantitative Methods Workshop, a weeklong introduction to how computational and mathematical techniques can be applied to neuroscience and biology research, students gain new skills and make new connections.

MIT seniors Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li are recipients of this year's prestigious Marshall Scholarship program. They will pursue graduate studies in the UK.

For over 20 years, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has freely shared knowledge with learners and educators around the world by publishing MIT course materials online. Today, over 2,500 MIT courses are…

MIT researcher Jessica Chomik-Morales hopes to inspire the next generation of Spanish-speaking scientists with her podcast, Mi Ultima Neurona.

MIT neuroscientists have found that when artificial intelligence is tasked with visually identifying objects and faces, it assigns specific components of its network to face recognition – just like the human brain.

Scientists and supporters rallied in cities across the U.S. and Europe to protest dramatic funding cuts and other attacks from the Trump administration

Letters to the editors for the February 2024 issue of Scientific American

The MIT Simons Center for the Social Brain catalyzes multiperspective, multiscale research collaborations to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and behavior.

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Top MIT community stories of 2024 dealt with the Climate Project at MIT and other new Institute collaborative projects; free tuition for most undergraduates; Nobels and other major awards; a solar eclipse over campus; and more.

Four scientific researchers working in the United States are sharing a $1 million prize...

Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself

MIT alumnus Ayomikun "Ayo" Ayodeji '22 from Lagos, Nigeria, has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar for West Africa. He will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. next fall.

When Emmanuel Kasigazi discovered MIT OpenCourseWare on YouTube, it opened a gateway to open education resources, including MIT Open Learning's MITx.

MIT neuroscientists discovered a population of food-responsive neurons located in the ventral visual stream, alongside populations that respond specifically to faces, bodies, places, and words.

It is easy for people to mistake fluent speech for fluent thought. When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience leads you to believe that it's written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this instance, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some s

For the first time, neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that light up when we hear singing, but not other types of music.

MIT cognitive neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher received the 2022 National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences for her "pioneering research into the functional organization of the human brain."