While women and men self-reported similar vaccination rates, unvaccinated women had less intention to get vaccinated than men.

Rising superpowers like China are “cautious opportunists” in global institutions, and the U.S. should avoid overreaction, PhD student Raymond Wang argues.

Known for building connections between the social sciences, data science, and computation, the political science professor will lead IDSS into its next chapter.

Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows.

In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.

New studies show that caste and ethnic identity play an outsize role in how business interacts with government in developing countries.

Letting people work with a “navigator” dramatically increases how often they move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods.

Research surveys show warnings issued by world leaders are taken equally seriously whether issued on social media or through formal statements.

A new method to measure homophily in large group interactions offers insights into how groups might interact in the future.

The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.