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It started with idea to help beleaguered fishermen. Now marine science lab promotes healthy fisheries, trains local workforce, seeks clues to longevity...

David Malan says CS50’s AI tutor is a net positive — and getting better...

Are we shaping our feeds or are they shaping us?

With exhibits including a dodo, fish mummified in pearl, and a ‘King Kong’-connected Komodo, ‘discovering the stories is one of the best jobs’...

Berkman Klein Center heard calls to keep models ‘honest, helpful, harmless.’ It’s a work in progress.

MIT chemical engineers found a way to rapidly produce lipid nanoparticles of varying sizes, which could make it easier to develop new vaccines and therapeutics.

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

They also found that obesity may put patients at higher risk for activation of the pathway. Drugs that block the pathway may help prevent metastasis.

MIT researchers developed a handheld system that gently collects living cells from patient samples to aid cancer testing and development of personalized medicines.

In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.

Six long-lost parchment leaves from a rare 15th-century manuscript in Yale Library’s collection were found uncovered in an English archive. The location of the missing manuscript leaves had been a mystery for nearly a century....

The Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture has designed living systems to address indoor air quality, outperforming conventional HVAC systems.

Using a trove of historical records, researchers have found that a process known as agricultural liming stores more carbon in the soil than it emits, a finding that contradicts conventional emissions accounting.

A new study from a Yale-led research team suggests that some of the most interesting black holes in the universe are the ones that have “wandered” away.

In misophonia, everyday sounds trigger distress, anger, or panic. Yale Child Study Center’s Thomas Fernandez studies the underlying biology to inform treatment.

An expert on the legions of bacteria in the human gut discusses their vital and irreplaceable role in human nutrition and health.

A sociologist combines AI and a popular street view application to assess urban gentrification and quality of life. Inequality persists, she says, but there are remedies.

Using MRI to track blood flow in the brain, one psychologist makes movies of the mind at work to help the world better understand mental illnesses.

In hospitals across the country, a small but growing number of certified bioethicists are becoming key advisors to the medical decision-making process.

Luenberger’s doctoral research gave rise to a technique that aerospace and robotics engineers still use to track the hidden behavior of complex systems.