Ten years after the founding of the undergraduate research program, its alumni reflect on the unexpected gifts of their experiences.

Partisan media might deepen political polarization, but we should measure people’s media habits more carefully before drawing conclusions, researchers say.

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

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

Two MIT professors and five alumni recognized for outstanding contributions to astronomy research, education, and communication.

Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.

Large-scale video campaign allowed physicians and public health messengers to encourage staying home over the 2020 holidays.

Results suggest people of all races and political affiliations can be influenced with accurate and clear information conveyed by trusted experts, such as physicians.

Social media users share charts and graphs — often with the same underlying data — to advocate opposing approaches to the pandemic.

Improved public health messaging to Black, Latinx, and other communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic can increase Covid-19 knowledge and information-seeking.