The Perseverance rover has arrived at what’s thought to be an ancient shoreline on Mars.

Postdoc Shaniel Bowen studies women's sexual anatomy and health while also working to interest young women in STEM careers.

Calcite, the material making up fossilized eggshells, may preserve amino acids better than bone.

Most antibiotics target metabolically active bacteria, but with artificial intelligence, researchers can efficiently screen compounds that are lethal to dormant microbes.

New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots.

An instrument on the Europa Clipper mission might be able to detect biological cells from space.

An MRI method purported to detect neurons’ rapid impulses produces its own misleading signals instead, an MIT study finds.

An elite athlete’s metabolism mostly looks different from a patient with COVID-19 − but their occasional similarities can reveal important insights into health and disease.

MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain.

Just as the world’s zoos breed critically endangered animals in captivity to repopulate the wild, scientists are building a global effort to freeze corals for reef restoration.