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Deploying simple, proven methods for making our roads safer could save more than 1 million lives worldwide each year.

Decoding how animals communicate could reveal the inner lives of other species--and give humans a window onto how they see the world.

It's all too easy to lose sight of ambition when we're busy playing whack-a-mole with the world's problems.

In unraveling the pathways by which movement helps the body, we could develop medicines that offer some of the same benefits, without the workout.

Ridding the world of forever chemicals could address a range of health and environmental and health woes.

A new era of spaceflight could save astronauts time and cut exposure to cosmic radiation as they rocket to Mars--and beyond.

An MIT historian uncovers the true origins of an artifact once thought to be a relic of the Boston Tea Party.

A plastic-based recyclable yarn is as strong and stretchy as spandex.

MIT engineers' design for a robot that both swims and flies could lead to a new class of vehicles for ocean exploration.

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