In her latest book, “We’ve Got You Covered,” Amy Finkelstein prescribes a complete overhaul of our health insurance system.

Returns cost companies billions of dollars in lost sales. They also generate emissions and packaging waste. Two logistics experts offer some tips from psychology for more sustainable returns.

A new report by MIT researchers highlights the potential of generative AI to help workers with certain writing assignments.

Three economists looked at years of temperature and death data and calculated the costs when forecasts miss the mark.

In China, the use of AI-driven facial recognition helps the regime repress dissent while enhancing the technology, researchers report.

The war in Ukraine has led to the destruction of scientific infrastructure, caused many Ukrainian researchers to leave the country and disrupted the work of those who have stayed.

A collaboration between MIT and Miami-Dade County has students working with city planning officials to understand why people wait patiently for a bus — and why they bail.

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

The inaugural SERC Symposium convened experts from multiple disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise with the broad applicability of computing in many aspects of society.

Not only is degrowth is not the same as negative GDP growth, it is actually better for the planet.