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MIT team’s nanoparticles could become a safer alternative to gene therapy delivered by viruses.

Students bring wind-speed monitoring equipment to campus to evaluate potential sites for a wind turbine.

MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change has pegged the annual cost of the proposed cap-and-trade legislation in Congress at $400 per U.S. household. But estimating the cost of doing nothing is far more difficult.

MIT economists find a new reason to think that environment, not innate ability, determines how well girls do in math class

The MIT economist blames inadequate incentives for the failure to develop a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS. He argues governments should help industry create an HIV vaccine by sharing risk.

Tumors can arise from different cell types in the pancreas, depending on the circumstances, according to MIT cancer biologists.

MIT neuroscientists are using their knowledge of the brain to generate promising treatments for autism, mental retardation and Alzheimer’s disease.

MIT’s undergraduates fight poverty one statistic at a time, thanks to coordination between the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

Study suggests that vaccinating many more people could slow the seasonal influenza virus's ability to evade vaccines.

Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down