A study found that adding legs does more for you than having a good sense of the ground around you − if you’re a mobile robot.

For MIT CSHub postdoc Miaomiao Zhang, communicating effectively is perhaps the most important part of research.

Laughter is so fundamental that animals like chimps, rats and dogs share the ability with humans. But in people it serves more serious social functions than just letting others know you’re having fun.

Climate scientists have long struggled to find the best ways to present info about future sea level rise, but they're getting better.

A new dataset can help scientists develop automatic systems that generate richer, more descriptive captions for online charts.

A researcher explains developments in using light rather than electrons to transmit information securely and quickly, even over long distances.

In politics, tailored ads make sense, but with real limits to the tailoring.

Public data about individual donors’ political contributions supports the perception that American academia leans left.

A new study shows lawyers find simplified legal documents easier to understand, more appealing, and just as enforceable as traditional contracts.