If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.

Having intelligence helps humans survive.

MIT community members made headlines around the world for their innovative approaches to addressing problems local and global.

The year’s popular research stories include a promising new approach to cancer immunotherapy, the confirmation of a 50-year-old theorem, and a major fusion breakthrough.

MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.

A new intervention saw a double-digit jump in children completing the HPV vaccine series by age 13. Further, the improvements lasted over four years.

Researchers encourage positive use cases of AI-generated characters for education and well-being.

Criminalising ecocide means its victims will be able to receive reparations, helping to rebuild destroyed ecosystems and communities.

MIT economist’s new research shows U.S. locales hammered by open trade with China have not rebounded, even a decade or more later.

A new study finds more than one early human species lived on the landscape in Northern Tanzania 3.66 million years ago. But there are reasons to be cautious about the findings.