Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...

Light often goes unnoticed until it’s gone. At MIT Museum’s “Lighten Up! On Biology and Time” exhibit, however, it becomes the main character in an interactive display as visitors walk a brightened ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at his home earlier in ...

Authorities were working Wednesday to uncover clues after a prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. – Authorities are investigating the death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor after he was found fatally shot inside his Boston-area apartment earlier this week. Nuno ...

The shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his home near Boston is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Nuno Loureiro, 47, from Portugal, was ...

Homicide detectives are investigating after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab director and professor was found shot to death in his Brookline home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was taken to ...

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot in his Boston-area home, according to authorities, who said they’re searching for a suspect. The Norfolk District Attorney’s ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is unlike other large universities, and not just because, according to its inexplicably ebullient president, Sally Kornbluth, the football players “thank you ...

The biological world is always expanding as research is constantly being done. Because of this, many findings often fall under the radar despite having the potential to change the world. Here are some ...