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A medical team administers anesthesia to a patient in an operating room.

Three anesthesia drugs all have the same effect in the brain, MIT researchers find

Two men seated in chairs, hands folded, in front of a curved wall of speakers.

How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem”

Horizontal portrait of Liqun Luo in a jacket and tie.

Liqun Luo named winner of the 2026 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

Abstract neural netwrok

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn

Smiling scientist in a lab setting.

Feng Zhang inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Language processing beyond the neocortex

Focused African American and Asian schoolgirls help one another with their assignment in science class at a STEM elementary school. The African American girl is looking at something with a microscope.

Unpacking social intelligence

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Focused African American and Asian schoolgirls help one another with their assignment in science class at a STEM elementary school. The African American girl is looking at something with a microscope.

Unpacking social intelligence

colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T cell (T lymphocyte).

New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system

Sven Dorkenwald stands before a projection of the mouse connectome.

All the connections

Celebrating worm science