Regulating a misfiring heart has long required surgeons to permanently embed metal wires and batteries deep inside a ...

The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons, and for decades scientists have assumed that these cells are the primary ...

Why your phone charges quickly one day but slowly the next, or why electric cars still take an hour or more to charge, is a matter of how lithium ions move into a battery’s electrodes. Scientists ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why lunar rocks show signs of strong magnetism when the moon itself has no global magnetic field today. New simulations suggest the answer may lie in a ...

Then why are so many optimistic scientists now losing heart? Because the nation’s research enterprise is shrinking.

Forward-looking: MIT scientists seeking breakthroughs in nuclear materials have made an unexpected discovery with major implications for microelectronics: they found they could use an X-ray beam not ...

Which of those sentences are you most likely to remember a few minutes from now? If you guessed the second, you’re probably correct. According to a new study from MIT cognitive scientists, sentences ...