Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.

Symposium featuring former astronauts and other Apollo mission luminaries examines the program’s legacy.

Acidic environment triggers genes that help cancer cells metastasize.

Her research pinpointed how CFCs caused the Antarctic ozone hole — and showed that the Montreal Protocol is helping to mend it. She’s convinced we can make progress on addressing climate change.

The MIT community is invited to comment on ways to increase sharing of research, data, software, and more.

A study co-authored by Professor Emilio Castilla found that “in companies that explicitly held meritocracy as a core value, managers assigned greater rewards to male employees over female employees with identical performance evaluations.”

“This is the first time we’ve seen that this noninvasive stimulation can improve cognitive function,” says Professor Li-Huei Tsai of a new MIT study that suggests exposing patients to flashing light and pulsing sounds could reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms.

MIT is offering an MITx course focused on the future of work that will “track technological history going back to the 19th century, income inequality, labor groups, automation, German manufacturing and more.”

MIT researchers have developed a low-energy imaging approach called three-photon microscopy that allows exploration of all six layers of the visual cortex in a mammal’s brain. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health director, notes that the researchers are proving themselves to be “biological explorers of the first order.”