New statistical model may help scientists understand how animals infer whether surroundings are novel or haven’t changed enough to be a new context.

Storage tool developed at MIT CSAIL adapts to what its datasets’ users want to search.

Policies meant to improve public health – like mandatory face masks during the coronavirus pandemic – need to take into account how people might adjust other behaviors in response.

A key difference is people's behavior, as a doctor explains.

A key difference is people's behavior, as a doctor explains.

Texas hospitals are filling up with new COVID-19 cases, and many of the people falling ill are young.

Texas hospitals are filling up with new COVID-19 cases, and many of the people falling ill are young.

It's human nature to try to insulate yourself from the unpleasant realization that death comes for all of us eventually.

An MIT system uses wireless signals to measure in-home appliance usage to better understand health tendencies.

The footprints of over 20 different prehistoric people, pressed into volcanic ash thousands of years ago in Tanzania, show possible evidence for sexual division of labor in this ancient community.