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MIT cognitive scientists Edward Gibson and Eric Martinez are among this year's winners of a satiric Ig Nobel Prize, for explaining what makes legal documents so difficult to comprehend.

An MIT study shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior in worms.

Under its "Fast Forward" climate action plan, which was announced in May 2021, MIT has set a goal of eliminating direct emissions from its campus by 2050. An important near-term milestone will be achieving net-zero emissions by 2026.

When holding information in mind, neural activity is more focused when and where there are bursts of gamma frequency rhythms, a new study by MIT neuroscientists shows.

MIT is accelerating efforts to meet its “Fast Forward” climate action plan goals of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2026 and zero direct carbon emissions by 2050.

Just how and when dogs originated has been the subject of much research. In one account, "Dogs originated from wolves domesticated in Europe, 19,000-32,000 years ago," based on DNA studies (2013). But other research points to many other...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been reported throughout the ages by those who've brushed close to the precipice of ...

A French historian studies the relationship between ancient stories told about dogs and information from genetics and archaeology.

Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the human mind, Setayesh Radkani is working on two PhD thesis projects at MIT. For one, she is studying punishment as a social tool to influence others. For the other, she is uncovering the neural processes underlying social learning — that is, learning from others.

Rhythmic bursts of activity in the prefrontal cortex reduce variability as an animal focuses on a task.