At The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, innovation ranges from awe-inspiring technology to down-to-earth creativity.

From undergraduate study to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty research, women within the Mellon College of Science’s ...

MIT scientists found that when people veer more than 13 degrees off-course in a crowd, orderly walking breaks down into ...

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure, and often begins co-translationally. Protein folding requires chaperones and often ...

MIT applied mathematics instructor Karol Bacik and an international team of researchers have pinpointed a precise factor that ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon.

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...

VAEs also introduce mathematical constraints that accommodate computational models called large neural networks. To continue with the example of large language models, these neural networks can be ...

How does the armored tiling on shark and ray cartilage maintain a continuous covering as the animals' skeletons expand during ...

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as trees, ...

Harvard scientist Dr. Willie Soon introduces a bold hypothesis that a mathematical formula could prove the existence of God. Drawing upon the fine-tuning argument, he suggests that the universe's ...