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.

Human psychology has evolved to avoid situations that could lead to infection. Behavioral choices now could have long-term effects on how people interact with others and the world.

Even when people believed Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election, they did not use “she” to refer to the next president.

Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves.

System from MIT CSAIL sizes up drivers as selfish or selfless. Could this help self-driving cars navigate in traffic?

Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.