When interventions or policies perform well in studies, they may disappoint later on. An MIT economist’s tools can help planners recognize this trap.

Tourists can do a number of things to avoid dangerous encounters with monkeys.

Humanoid robots tend to be white or resemble white people. Here’s why this is a problem and what social scientists, designers and engineers can do about it.

Spreadsheet-related errors can have serious consequences in the private and public sector. But what can we do to overcome them?

Collaborative brings together charter school policy, practice, and research communities to help make research on charters more actionable, rigorous, and policy-relevant.

PhD students interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab look to improve natural language usage.

At the MIT Blueprint Labs Preschool Research Convening, practitioners present studies on early childhood education and discuss future directions.

An unexpected case of rabies found in an animal can raise concerns for a potential outbreak. Proactive vaccination of both wildlife and people can help protect everyone.

Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’