Science

Subterranean mosquitoes specialized for life in subways and sewers first evolved to pester humans millennia ago in Mediterranean civilizations.A widely accepted story about the mosquitoes’ evolution put their origins in the London Underground train system in the last century...

Available for over a yearThe 'bionic eye' may make you think of Star Trek’s Geordi La Forge. Now, scientists have restored the ability to read in a group of blind patients with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). And...

Some vipers are the sprinters of snakes.Vipers wielded the fastest attacks in a comparison of 36 venomous snakes from three families, researchers report October 23 in Journal of Experimental Biology. And the quickest vipers tend to be ambush predators...

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible...

The vessel rolled in the swell as fishers pulled huge nets bursting with tuna onto the deck then poured the catch down a loading hatch.But Melissa Cronin wasn’t there for the tuna. She was looking for ways to save...

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park, lives with noncancerous tumors in the uterus called uterine fibroids. “That’s what drew me in...

Gold prices made a recovery in early European trading, bouncing back after a dramatic 5% plunge in a single session. Bargain hunters swooped in, while a slight dip in the US dollar...

When it comes to artificial intelligence, MIT and IBM were there at the beginning: laying foundational work...

The inaugural PITCH.nano competition, hosted by MIT.nano’s hard technology accelerator START.nano, provided a platform for early-stage startups...

Duping a guppy is easier than duping a ring dove — at least when it comes to a classic optical illusion.  In the Ebbinghaus illusion, two identical circles placed side by side are each framed by a set of either...