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Medical exploitation is an often overlooked part of Black history and partly explains the mistrust that members of the Black community have for the medical industry.

Henrietta Lacks is one of the most well-known examples of medical exploitation on a Black body. It is far from the only example.

MIT School of Science granted tenure to 14 faculty members in the departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and Physics.

Surveys of Twitter and Facebook users show people are exhausted by and unhappy with the overrepresentation of extreme political content or controversial topics in their feeds.In a review published Aug. 3 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, s

Kathrin "Kat" Kajderowicz, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Whitehead Institute, is studying how hibernation-like states for cells, organs, or even whole organisms could pave the way for new hypothermic therapies.

The four initial Meta studies highlight the fallibility of corporate collaboration and the need for government transparency mandates.

Loango, a large protected area on the west coast of Central Africa, is a natural paradise: the area, over 1,502 square kilometres,

Last structural beam placed in UD's new 'science collider' laboratory

Electric fields drive the electrical activity of networks of neurons to produce a shared representation of the information stored in working memory, a new MIT study finds.

"Psychiatry is in a real stew now, with every kind of foundational question up for grabs."