Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.

Nanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them much easier to detect in the urine.

Research could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs.

MIT anthropologist looks inside the growing world of do-it-yourself American cheese-makers.

Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.

MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.

Researchers find a common angle and tipping point of branching valley networks.

Twin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.

New design technique could enable personalized medicine, studies of brain wiring.

Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.